Tradition Will Eat Itself

This series of works depicts the latent content and materiality of rug hooking, turning our attention to the means of production: how producing rugs is affected by and affects physical bodies; how our rugs are embedded in and reproduce race, class, gender, and geography; what materials and tools we use and how we acquire them; what kind of language we use to describe ourselves; how we manipulate the aesthetics of hooked rugs to perpetuate self-serving narratives of convenience.