ALLISON SPENCE

Embroidery is an extremely tactile, slow, solitary, and often domestic practice. It is one with a long history connected to waiting within the home. The Waiting Paintings series began in the pandemic, and as such present a visual record of issues of corporeal anxiety, touch,  boundaries, and disease. The arrival of COVID-19 and how it has changed our conception and awareness of our own bodies—our cleanliness rituals, spaces, personal boundaries, and interactions with other bodies was of particular interest to my overall research, which revolves around irregular bodies and indeterminate boundaries.