making the invisible - visible

Ink and thread on various fabrics (bed sheets)

Many have learned to labour and to wait their turn in the long fade of time.  Unpaid invisible labour changes how humans see themselves.  The silt of tomorrow is created from the behaviours of today. When society silences you, it becomes internalized because everything sinks into the heart.

Time passes at the same rate for all people, 60 minutes to an hour, 24 hours in a day. Social change doesn’t move at the same pace for everyone. For some the movement and the movie is silent.  The vacuum of silence exists in the moments when you are too busy, when you are trapped in it, making it impossible to be heard. The voice inside our heads is the only one loud enough, but we are unable to respond.  Silence pervades within a power struggle with self and self-worth.

When human efforts are undervalued and taken for granted or unacknowledged, the currency of the collective is in jeopardy.

How many spoons are used in an 80 year lifetime??

Eating Spoons: around 65,000
for meals like cereal, soup, and desserts

Beverage Spoons: around 20,000
for stirring coffee, tea, and hot chocolate

In an average lifetime
54 – 121 days
 are spent washing and mopping floors.

The variance due to the type of flooring and if there are pets.

Alarm clock wakeups in an 80 year lifetime is around 12,400 times