As an artist I have always strived to use my own voice and experience as a reference for my artwork. I grew up in a rural Ontario town. As a child and throughout my adolescence, I often struggled with finding the line between rules, routines, and compulsive behaviours that felt out of control. Often creativity, whether through craft, writing, or art, felt like an outlet, a time where worry was taken from the forefront of my mind.

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 to feel, explore...,

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 our desired...