Allison Honeycutt - Grief Bonnets: Garden (Velveteen, Silk Ribbon, Antique Faux Rose, 10" x 26" x 9", 2019)
Working with fabric is a way to play with form and emptiness simultaneously. When creating wearable art you can fill your piece and let it move or let it live as only an object like a discarded shell, beautiful and empty but telling the story of what lived inside of it. The Grief Bonnets series is a response to grieving as well as a symbolic form of protection, holding space for the individual experience of grief, and permission to grieve. We grieve from any great loss whether a person, place, or a way of life. All grief should be honored.
Working with fabric is a way to play with form and emptiness simultaneously. When creating wearable art you can fill your piece and let it move or let it live as only an object like a discarded shell, beautiful and empty but telling the story of what lived inside of it. The Grief Bonnets series is a response to grieving as well as a symbolic form of protection, holding space for the individual experience of grief, and permission to grieve. We grieve from any great loss whether a person, place, or a way of life. All grief should be honored.
Working with fabric is a way to play with form and emptiness simultaneously. When creating wearable art you can fill your piece and let it move or let it live as only an object like a discarded shell, beautiful and empty but telling the story of what lived inside of it. The Grief Bonnets series is a response to grieving as well as a symbolic form of protection, holding space for the individual experience of grief, and permission to grieve. We grieve from any great loss whether a person, place, or a way of life. All grief should be honored.