Materials: Thinly cut groove-line strips of new, used, rescued, sanitised, and re-stained Viva paper towels, stabiliser, and stained embroidery thread.
Medium: Paper textile weave.
Dimensions: 75cm(W) x 60cm(H)

White on white, not quite white, not alright is a triptych of hand-woven tea towels made from strips of new, used, rescued and re-stained Viva paper towels. The first in the triptych recalls the restrained white paintings of Malevich, Rauschenberg, Martin and Johns; all evoke post-minimalist ruptures, when the purity of painting gives way to the intrusion of the body, matter and life. In much the same way, the innocence of life and love can so easily unravel into something darker. Through balance, fragility and stain, the work gestures toward the uneasy tensions between hope and harm, tenderness and violence, expectation and reality.