An installation of over 150 sock dolls at Gallery 4Culture.
Exhibition catalog available at Amazon.
Watch on Laura Castellanos’ YouTube channel.
“Borrowed Tribe” started from a desire to honor my grandmother’s memory by creating a project using her humble sewing kit and button collection as inspiration. As the work progressed, friends began to donate items to the project, making it a communal enterprise. By using such a random assortment of secondhand materials, I was able to serve both my innate preference towards visual syncopation as well as represent my grandmother’s spirit in making do with less. In searching for solutions to transform these hand-me-downs into an installation of 150+ specific selves, I practiced a kind of kinetic thinking, one which guided me towards a process of ongoing discovery.