ABSTRACT
Cave of Secrets is a place where handcraft and industrial production merge in the realm of textiles. Within this installation are artworks made with a manually operated knitting loom used as a sculpting tool, producing fabric in three dimensions that manifests as body parts, and fabric that is slashed and repaired and reveals wounded flesh and eyes crying. In some cases, the machine-made pieces are re-worked by hand, stitched over hours and hours, returning to the toil, combining the efficiency and precision of technology with the irregularity, slowness, and touch of hand. The artwork invites viewers to consider the spectrum of labor in the process of making. The East side is gendered as male, with black wallpaper, confrontational artworks, and Gregg Bordowitz’s video entitled Lectures on Masculinity. Cave of Secrets is a dreamscape of objects that hold light, secrets, sorrow, elation, mystery, violence, deep and utter despair, hidden meanings, the unknown.
