April Wright

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    Night Aggregations
stretched cotton linen, yarn, string, plastic, and unfired stoneware
48"x 48"x 9 1/2" 
2019

“Night Aggregations”

Various colorful, but desaturated linear fiber lines are stretched and strung on frame loom and then placed in relationship to a large tangled mass. Each fiber line is in waiting either to be turned into a bundle or untangled into a line, which direction they undergo is unclear. This work came from this idea of caring for something so much that it becomes over cared for and then becomes burdensome.
    Night Aggregations (close up)
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    Buried Lines
cotton stretched linen, clay slip, graphite, concrete
31/2" x 3" x 2"
2019


"Buried Lines"

This piece is acting as a window blind system would for a domestic space. However, the blinds in this system do not open to the outside world. Instead, they are veiling a portion of the wall. Dipping cotton linen bandages in materials that are from earth, I’m burying them in materials that are normally walked on outside and using them as you would use a piece of cloth to cover a window after a traumatic event.
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    Buried Lines (close up)
    Uprooted
    Uprooted (close up)
    Upheaving Roots
various discarded fibers, wood, and wire
5'x 2'x 17"

2019
    close up of upheaving roots
    Ironing in Imperfections
deconstructed paper casted ironing boards made from cotton gauze, and shredded clothing that was found from the inside of a punching bag, gold thread, natural debris, fake sinew, and adhesive.
46"x 50"x 1"
2019
    Ironing in Imperfections (close uo)
    Tattered and Torn 
shredded clothing found inside of a punching bag, thread, worn bedsheets, bathroom curtain, and wood
70” x 28”x 8 1/2”
2020

Ann Hamilton once wrote, “Cloth is the body’s first architecture; it protects, conceals, and reveals; it carries our weight, swaddles us at birth and covers us in sleep and in death.” Like Hamilton’s quote on cloth, my intent for this work is to express this urgent human need to find shelter and protection.
    Tattered and Torn (close up)
    Tattered and Torn (close up)
    To confine an escape 
37 1/2"x 29"x 13 1/2"
shredded clothing found inside of a punching bag, cotton thread, wire, and 
metal curtain rods.
2020
    To confine an escape 
37 1/2"x 29"x 13 1/2"
shredded clothing found inside of a punching bag, cotton thread, wire, and 
metal curtain rods.
2020
    Attempting Closure
28” x 41” x 9”
shredded clothing found inside of a punching bag, cotton thread, wire, and 
metal curtain rods.
2020
    To confine an escape (close up)
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