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About the artwork
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I started this piece in 2022, while attempting to recover from Long Covid (neurodivergent people, it turns out, are SUPER prone to post-viral body and brain chaos). My symptoms at the time rendered me bedbound for at least half of every day, so I was trying to displace more stressful / physical / time bound work with yarn craft. It's freehanded (no pattern) - I invented stitch combinations to make it the texture and shape I wanted.
I'm still working on it three and a half years later - multiple invisible and inadequately supported disabilities, as well as the long tail of post viral stuff, mean that I mostly don't have spoons to work on it. I have a bunch of other WIPs also, but this was my bulkiest. How is this emblematic of my best life? Because I will get there. I’m almost there with this project; eventually I will get there with the others. It may be slow and non-linear, but that doesn’t make either the process or the results less valuable or meaningful. And for me, this piece is particularly meaningful: it is a celebration of non-binariness in the form of a weird, wonderful, washable, WARM wearable.
About the artist - Quin Thomson
Listen to the artist statement and bio for Work in progress aka Coat of Enby Colours
Quin is a queer disabled maker advocate. They are mostly a musician, with a practice emcompassing performance, composition, and musical direction. As well as the artwork on display at the exhibition, they have made various visual and installation artwork that speaks to themes of queerness and disability and their intersection.