Woolnerable

This ongoing project is an experimental body of work which explores the expressive potential of unprocessed sheep wool —as both material and metaphor. What emerges is a tactile dialogue with absence, the inevitable transformation of the self, and the uncharted territory of mourning — where ruin becomes the very architecture of grief.

The space itself was not a neutral container but a force: a place that held the works, listened to them, and answered back. In that encounter, the materiality of the pieces aligned with the elemental qualities of the space —they entered into a quiet exchange with the room’s energy as if the space itself were completing the works, offering its own breath, its own memory.

What unfolded was a temporary communion: the works grounding the space, the space expanding the works. A moment in which boundaries dissolved and the environment became part of the narrative, part of the body of the work itself. In that setting, the pieces felt less like objects being documented and more like entities being revealed.

Space becomes a fundamental agent in inhabiting absence —absence not as a void, but as a conceptual landscape where meaning thrives. For me, absence is never empty; it is a dense, omnipresent entity that asks to be given weight.

Mixed Media

Unprocesed sheep wool, burlap, reclaimed fabric, found objects, salvaged wood

2025

Photos by Lelle Fotografie