Armor (2024)

This piece explores the invisibility of women’s craft under patriarchal structures that relegates fiber arts and textiles as hidden, domestic, and unpaid labor. Situating fiber arts, typically seen as “women’s work” as armor, explores how women’s craft are acts of resistance, shelter, storytelling, and asserting presence. Fiber arts has a rich history of political subversion, an inherent tool of resilience. Textiles has long been used for wartime resistance, mutual aid, and survival. The participation in fiber arts, regardless of political intent, makes labor visible in a system that rely on invisibility. It reveals labor, resists speed, and centers care.