SKY CULT is a series of felted wool works colored with red and yellow ochre. The pigment is worked directly into the wool, which is then rolled and beaten until the fibers bind into a single textile.
Ochre is among the earliest pigments used by humans to represent bodies and the surrounding world. It also continues to be used by shepherds to mark their flocks, placing color directly onto the animal body as a form of identification. Across the series, a recurring circular form remains unstable in its interpretation: it may suggest a celestial body, a ripening yolk, a polka dot, or a marking on the body of a sheep.
Moving between image-making and the domesticated body, the same form shifts across cosmic, biological, and pastoral scales and systems of meaning.
Ochre is among the earliest pigments used by humans to represent bodies and the surrounding world. It also continues to be used by shepherds to mark their flocks, placing color directly onto the animal body as a form of identification. Across the series, a recurring circular form remains unstable in its interpretation: it may suggest a celestial body, a ripening yolk, a polka dot, or a marking on the body of a sheep.
Moving between image-making and the domesticated body, the same form shifts across cosmic, biological, and pastoral scales and systems of meaning.
