The Undead

Finding resolve in the tenuous spaces between decomposition and recomposition, “The Undead” examines the potential for macrame sculpture as a form of storytelling. Recycled cotton knotted around salvaged steel scraps yields a collection of pieces that conjure a bio-surrealist fantasy of what it might mean to be “undead”: not barely alive, not resuscitated, but somehow suspended in a form of degeneration that is vital.

Janis Ledwell-Hunt is a Canadian fiber artist whose biophilic work both stems from and reinforces a sense of connection with the Pacific Northwest, specifically Vancouver Island. Her first solo exhibit, “The Undead” explores vital decompositions, parasitisms, and bio-surrealist fantasies that extend a sense of uncertainty to typical divisions between life and death, self and other, hero and villain, natural and industrial.
 

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