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Do you struggle with wearing socks?

I have been working on making my perfect sock: a stim to make and a stim to wear. Pulling loops through other loops takes care of my need to move my hands in pattern. There are myriad possibilities when making clothes to fit a form, and it is the consideration of the specific details that gives power to address all the space it can take up. These socks fit my sensory needs.

I wore them to the textile research lab, a meaningful occasion, but nobody noticed the socks inside my shoes and under my trouser hem. The sunlight faded the lemon yellow colour when I put them out on display.

To everyone who has acknowledged the validity of socks.

Baggage Claim (2023)

Hand-dyed silk (2022)

  • A low grey plinth mimicking a baggage reclaim conveyor belt supports a selection of small to medium sized sculptures. At the centre of the image are a pair of pale yellow socks, sitting on the plinth.
  • A pair of pale yellow socks on a grey background. They have a subtle striping and some offset rib texture bands. One is sitting up, the other is laying face down.

Crit Club Presents*

Written in dialogue with Ruairi Fallon McGuigan, Matilda Mercer, Eleni Papazoglou, Rosalind Wilson, with publication design by Stephen Dalley.

Support is more than propping something up. Support does not always defy gravity. Sometimes it lets you slump, or maybe float? Stretch and stabilise. Crit club is: fluid. We work to ask for what we need, to verbalise. Together we feel our way for a direction.

How to make a Crit Club
1. Meet once a month (peer group)
2. Everyone shares work in every session (safespace)
3. Rotate the responsibility of hosting (cooperative)
4. Rotate the responsibility of bringing snacks (reinforcement of practice)
5. Resources, skills and tool sharing (testing ground)
6. Go for drinks after (structured sessions)
7. Do not take admin home (reflective)

Collaborative text (2021)

Domestic geology

Work in progress, extending and coiling to the unfathomable end point

Crit Club Presents* (2021)

Packing tape, cornflakes, gold, cat hair, human hair, concrete, pastry, nylon, silk, cotton, general dust, soil, mica, plastic, emulsion, leaves, insects, clay, earthenware, iron (III) oxide, cobalt oxide, copper oxide, mixed gravel, moss (2020) tape, monofilament, silicate, zinc, whiteboard marker (2021) Photography by Alex Kurunis

Core Sample

Earth Speech, 138 High St, Cranleigh (2020)
Crit Club Presents* (2021)

Handwoven tapestry, silk, cotton, linen, wool, rayon, unknown fibres, on raw clay body with cobalt oxide and copper oxide (2020) Photography by Alex Kurunis and Jon Millwood

Fenlandia (AArchitecture 41)

R e f r a c t e d looping
Undulations afoot
And holding it all down, I glitter above the broken
Shreddies

Cold that draws the comfort from my hand is
Ungainly
Slllumping it out
Dragging dust crumbs and hair, a shrivelled pea becomes a
geological erratic
Hanging the duvet dropped the once-green boulder almost
silently downstairs

They said it would be up to seven working days for a new
filter part. In the meantime, strata were laid: unwatched
cornflakes pushed methodically into the carpet, gusts of
loom dust hesitated
Wavering over the weight of physics

The luminescence held within quartz tells when the
mineral last saw daylight. Defects within the crystal
structure trap electrons: which Vax nozzle is best to suck
these β particles out? 'Static electricity, even the
interactions of one atom with another can overpower the
call of gravity.'

Space is very dusty. Vacuuming the vacuum, I've got a
labelled bag waiting.

Published by the Architectural Association, 2020
Editorial Board: Alex Lorente, Ryan Dillon
Student Editorial Team: Gabrielle Eglen, Amy Glover, Georgia Hablützel, Theo Sykes, Paul Vecsei
Design: Oliver Long

Text, images (2020)