GARMENTS AGAINST TEXTBOOKS | knitted garment made from pages of HW Janson’s History of Art (Chapters 4-6: Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture, Twentieth Century Architecture, and Twentieth Century Photography) with linen tape, approx. 23 x 36 in., 2022.

This piece is part of a larger project of we call the Informal Service for Undoing Art Historical Damage. It entails dismantling old art history textbooks (specifically editions of the canonical History of Art by HW Janson) and making new semi-functional things. It’s been a way to acknowledge the myths and blindspots at work in the construction of the art historical knowledge we’ve inherited. The knitting process also interrupted a conventional practice of reading in satisfying ways, producing fragmented poems we caught while working. ‘red henri and white body horror’ ‘his quadrilateral dream world display’, ‘the forms with abstraction held realms’ ‘faces did emerge, facets are now, the initial process.’etc. etc.