Kathryn Cambell Dodd

Statement - 
I am interested in the transfer or projection of identity from people to their possessions and their spaces, the idea of the 'ghost'; the way in which an object can be
 both infused with identity and subsume identity. There comes a point where the distinction between the object and the user becomes unclear. In my own recent 
work I try to find and express the essential poetry of this relationship.      
In recent work I have become interested in re-inventing objects and fabrics to reflect this idea. I use vintage and used fabrics to wrap, cover and reinvent domestic
 objects to draw attention to their personal and cultural significance.  In the process, they become useless; obsolete as functional objects and begin to exist as 
symbols of themselves. On a personal level, the processes of tearing, stitching, wrapping and reinventing serve to articulate my own ever-present ghosts.
I am interested in the vernacular traditions of re-using and recycling, objects changing their function and their shape, clothes being passed on and altered, changing
 their form but retaining their memories – this was a firm part of my childhood household; newly pertinent in the current climate of ‘austerity’.

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