Of Warmth and Bones
Of Warmth and Bones (2019) is a series of sculptures that deal with warmth, death, and memory. As if hoping to preserve the warmth and memory of a departed body, I crocheted sheep yarn around the femur, mandibles and humerus of various animals.
Sheep wool is at the center of my family’s hat-making tradition: it is our lifeline, the fiber connecting our memories. Weaving it is an act of remembrance, an exercise against the coldness of forgetting.
![Warmth Leaving your Body (Nonno Julio), 2017Cow humerus crocheted with hand-spun sheep wool](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba4931b179a15dbeefcdf4ab9b3ef78715ad78295d6d558a8e3bbbb90915874a/WAB_507A1705.jpg)
![The First Time, the Last Time, 2017Cow mandibles crocheted in sheep yarn](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f1b89918bc1f5a0b3691a5dcdfe4d25f3283d3df2a573557e24f06a80a238df/WAB_507A1750.jpg)
![Inert Structure, 201717 pig humeri crocheted in a network of sheep yarn](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01e57592859d5127e51a6d6d3d12dc1e648bf9801d9a6b0e3644fd455101bee4/WAB_507A1807-2.jpg)
![Whip of Life-Lines, 2017Soft whip made from wool, knotted and unspinned in an exponential pattern](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4df233d6ea6c9dee24f3ebcc3dc6d2111df835ec68e9676b8d66d0c44d7f6fc8/WAB_507A1857.jpg)