MNG Presents

The Rules of Show and Tell

By Camryn Carnell

This piece is part of a recent shift in my practice towards using more fabric and sewing techniques. I am interested in how humour and heart can be conveyed in these mediums, using garish colours, tactility, and soft sculpture. What is sharp is actually squishy, what is rigid is flexible. Playfulness and soft textures use comfort as an accessible place of confrontation. Distorted patterns and protruding volumes depict a tension between organization and the disjointed. Fuzzy spikes and a fluctuating base disrupt the patchworked base. Tensions between the checkerboard pattern and disorganized volumes propose narratives through their collision.

Referencing personal anecdotes through titles ground my ambiguous forms. In this piece, I recall a time in kindergarten, when I was sent home with a letter from my teacher, requesting that I participate less often in show and tell.

See the exhibition in the LRT Window Gallery from April 19th-30th.