Even in spaces we understand as safe, we hesitate to soften. With people we trust and admire, we resist softening or allowing them to soften. With the intent to protect ourselves and others, we remind them to stiffen up and remain ‘resilient.’ It's perceived as distasteful to accommodate, empathize, and love traits essential and inherent to people’s existence. The softness of these actions, accused as counter-productive, allows a freer and more grounded experience, permitted

wo Bodies Converge in Felt consists of three colourful, eclectic felt collages that visualize the textile intersection of Gwyn’s interest in still life and Celeste’s process of simplifying forms and patterns from life. We simplify objects in our homes into flat symbols on felt, translating the everyday into foldable, modular shapes to be repeated and combined through collage. We amass large collections of flat objects cut from factory felt, from which we gather felt objects

In preparing for this show, I took on the challenge of sticking to a cohesive series with a common theme. Generally, I find myself jumping from one idea to another as inspiration strikes, so this was a significant test for me. As I wrestled with the self-imposed limitations, I, like many others, I also acknowledged the need to step back from constant news updates and social media interactions relating to the tumultuous state of global politics. To say the past five years have