Trodden

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​Empty blister packs stitched together (approx.9970)

260 x 366 cm 

2025

 

Years of collecting, hours of stitching, all becomes a gathering in ‘Trodden’. The act of stitching empty blister packs together serves as a counteraction to the disposability of empty packets. By stitching them into a single, unified artwork, the packs become more than being refused; they become an invitation to come close and reconsider what we value, what we discard, revealing the "thingness" of the objects we take for granted every day (through Heidegger’s lens). The "thingness" of the artwork is not just the sum of the individual packs, it is the result of their relationship with each other, with the viewer, and with the space in which they are displayed. In the work approx. 9,700 packs become ‘things’ that reveal the unconcealment of being, history, time, context and meaning.