Dis-ease with disease

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Employing textile-based hand techniques such as knitting and weaving to create fictitious pathogens - this body of work represents collective and individual concerns about health and safety from past and present global pandemics. The work also explores personal, intimate illness and an awareness of an unseen microscopic world. Depicting the notion of the viral transmission of pathogens and textiles, this body of work also reveals where we can find beauty in these microscopic organisms. Disease can cause catastrophic destruction of cells - they are something we cannot see, taste, smell, etc., and yet, if we examine them, whether it is SARS, MERS, Covid, or Cancer cells, they are beautiful structures.