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For the creation of this installation friends and family were invited to join the project by providing a piece of writing. They were each asked to respond to the question “What holds you together?”

The responses received were very diverse, from old journal pages and poems, to personal
stories and musings. Each unique but similar in their experiences of sadness and trauma, fear and brokenness, messy moments of barely holding it together, mere threads keeping them from falling apart. Each unique in their experiences, but also very much the
same in the need to have a sort of joining thread. Montroy has been drawn to the motif of a patchwork quilt recently as a culturally rich object and vessel for speaking about what it is to be human. To be a person, patchworked together from a multitude of different stories, experiences, and more, coming together into a wonderful kaleidoscope of colours and textures. She took these words, along with some of her own poems and added the shredded paper fibers to clay slip, creating a material that is both strong to build with, and conceptually rich. The hope is for the viewers to engage with the work and take time to reflect on what holds them together.

Catégories de métiers d’art

• Céramique
• Textiles
• Techniques mixtes
• Sculpture

Tags

• Argile
• Papiers
• Tissage

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