By Anna Moran, Sorcha O'Brien
How are love and emotion embodied in fabric form?
Love items explores the emotional efficiency of items, addressing how items can functionality as fetishes, symbols and representations, lively members in and mediators of our relations, in addition to tokens of love, symbols of virility, triggers of nostalgia, replacements for misplaced household, and emblems of misplaced locations and times.
Addressing either designed 'things with attitude' and the 'wild things' of fabric tradition, Love gadgets explores quite a lot of gadgets, from 19th-century American photographs exhibiting men's passionate friendships to the devotional and political meanings of spiritual statues in Twenties eire.
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A brooder is also a person who broods, and the installation aims to raise questions about fertility. Dupré in Scott, 2003 p. 117 For Dupré and Qualmann, knitting provides a protective surface, a barrier between the inside and outside, or in Dupré’s case, life and death – if the knitted papoose gives way, unravels or loosens from its hook, the egg will fall and break. 161). It is possible to extend this metaphor to the knitting itself; it looks like it can protect, but because it is made not merely from loops of yarn, but also from holes, it is inherently vulnerable.
26 JO TURNEY dilemmas of parenthood, the frailty of an innocent in a corrupt world. Qualmann’s work indicates the impossibility and futility of such an endeavour. Movement and growth is restricted by the cosy, vision is impaired and the world outside completely hidden. The message is simple: one can try to wrap one’s children and protect them, but to do this would stifle their development and experience of the world. One may love, keep warm and protect, but this love is impairing, even harmful.
S)MOTHER’S LOVE 25 Kristeva’s analysis of the abject. 45). In Obermeyer’s sculpture, we can see the lifeblood sucked from the mother, endlessly nurturing and sustaining, and extending or developing the meaning or purpose of the woman as mother. Here, the mother is a conduit; the umbilicus hinders her movement whilst the child must free itself from its constraint. The dichotomous position the mother finds herself in is twofold: to focus on the self or the child and/or to nurture too much and limit the development of her offspring.