Work = Worship:

This body of work – entitled Work=Worship – gives meaning to industrial objects that have gone silent. In this series, I explore the legacy of early industry and the tensions that emerge between our current context of global production and traditional forms of manufacturing that still privileged both hand-made objects and the worker who made them. Some objects employed in these works are literal remnants of a bygone era gathered from industrial sites that have been abandoned. Others are figments of my own imagination, such as gears and thread which have been hand-made in clay using alternative processes. By combining these two different types of material, Work =Worship evokes a sense of ritual and reverence. This sense of ritual originates partly from my own repetitive act of making, which evokes the repetitive tasks of the mill hands who tended their posts as rhythmically as one would say the rosary.