- Not Quite Together
- Collaboration Bev Butkow and Sharon Maxinyane
- Wool, thread, glass beads, artificial pearls, string, lawnmower cord, time and effort
- 150 x 45
In not quite together, threads, beads and fragments of material form a structure in which connection never quite becomes cohesion. The weave shifts between order and disarray; flashes of glass and artificial pearls catch the light amid irregularities and gaps. Its elements hold together without settling into a seamless whole.
Weaving offers me a way to think about how different elements can remain in relation without having to fit perfectly. not quite together does not treat instability as a problem that must be overcome. Instead, it proposes that a structure can hold its differences – and that something new may emerge precisely because those differences remain.
Presented in Collaboration with Guns and Rain Contemporary
