Snagged

Snagged

The snag can be thought of as the moment when something beneath the surface – the latent content, as it were – becomes manifest, obtrusive. Rug hooking, which involves pulling loops of fabric through a loose-weave foundation cloth, can be read as the purposeful snagging of fabric that has on a smaller scale already been snagged (literally damaged and pulled out of use). These artworks explore the implications of fast fashion by restaging and reusing post-consumer textiles. For example, Rag Yard (Buried Treasure) and Rag Yard (Proliferation) offer iterations of a photograph of a rag yard (a largely-invisible place where castoff clothing is sorted and resold). Rag Bale I, II, and III stylize the “harvest” of fast fashion into cubes that disorient the viewer. What does it mean to occupy the snagged space, to see not a space for correction or imperfection but a space of possibility?