rurug

This piece celebrates gender as performance by marrying the craft technique of latch hooking with the image of pop culture icon, RuPaul. To produce this piece, I generated a gridded pattern, then set off latch hooking each piece of yarn by hand; the variants of colors and intricate detailing in the grid pattern give the piece a hyper-realistic, almost painterly quality that truly amplifies the campiness of both the technique and subject matter.

Rurug, Latch Hooked Rug, 4' x 5’ 5”. 2013.