DISSONANT GRIDS: milk fills in the gaps

DISSONANT GRIDS: milk lls in the gaps 2 grids "We have built a world of rectilinearity.The rooms we inhabit, the skyscrapers we work in, the grid-like arrangement of our streets and the freeways we cruise on our daily commute speak to us in straight lines." 1 "Some inheritances feel like unwelcome debts." 2 Grid-play is a practice of refusing straight lines, of calling to disorder.I'm really not of a mathematical mind.Mine are grids that fail, that err, that tell no story, that lead nowhere.They can't contain, but give shape to my sense of things; hold my memories quietly.I weave strips of milky cotton with the milkweed print, distorting Abby Maxwell, milk fills in the gaps p. I, 2023.Screenprint on cotton with silk, cow milk and iron mordants, madder, hawthorn, and marigold.