Fire

In Fire, textile and the elemental converge to explore presence, absence and transformation. Through the careful construction of body-shaped garment forms from stitched cloth, these sculptural pieces echo the human silhouette — tender, vulnerable, and defined by touch. Once positioned within a woodland setting, the form encounters its inevitable undoing: fire. The process of burning is not destruction alone, but a visceral act of letting material return to ash and smoke, evoking memory, loss and renewal while foregrounding the breath, warmth and ephemeral trace of the body.

Set against the quietude of the forest, the charred remnants and glowing embers become a visual and sensory dialogue between textile, body and the natural world. This work invites viewers to reflect on the thresholds between creation and decay, material and spirit, presence and disappearance — and to reconsider fire not solely as a force of obliteration but as an agent of transformation and poetic resonance.
 

Photographs by Michael Sides