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Untitled Skirt
Please touch this skirt.
You are all the many witnesses to the process, to the finished piece. It may pass through many hands, connecting us all, but will one day unravel, will fade, disintegrate.
Through making and presenting the work, I hope to make clear the textural experience of my internal feelings about existing here and now, the bumps and stops and convoluted paths we follow.
Knitting is a fantasy space for me, one in which to imagine what a world of my own making would feel like. It is also a place of both craft and utility. While knitting, I wonder how we can keep each other warm, hold each other for however long in a multicolored dream land? How we can make joyous virtue omnipresent?
lilac sunbeam is the artist alter ego of Molly Rich. They grew up in Los Angeles, California and are a junior at Gallatin. Studying Queer pleasure and strategies of care, Molly’s work explores the strings of love that bind us together. The action of knitting gives their hands purpose when hopelessness threatens her presence. It allows them to express spirituality through their hands, to share in soft sensual delight.
Much of their creation is done in public spaces: on the train, in a park, or at a library. They relish the glimpses of stranger’s internal worlds in the brief and meaningful contact of a glance, an interaction, a conversation. They collect much else alongside the yarn, a plethora of earth material, sounds, smells, and dreams.
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