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2021
Alpaca fleece, wool
1000mm (H) x 800mm (W) x 4mm (D)
Sister embodies the space of seperation and the longing to reconnect. My own sister was the inspiration for this work made from unprocessed alpaca fleece.
Karen Rubado deploys her loom to do, to undo, and to make-do, both materially and to trouble and loosen our attachments to and associations with things. A strong element that runs throughout her works is that they are unresolved, and by being situated between being done and undone, woven and unwoven there is a sense that we are part of a fleeting moment in the fabric of time.
- Text by Julia Teale