Madison Nelson
Vibrating between image and object, my studio practice centers on material manipulation and the semiotics of everyday textiles. Fascinated with hybridity and the brain’s reward system, I marry repetition and overstimulation by rerendering and reconstructing cloth. I transform photo montages into fiber assemblages by dissecting their forms and material cultures. Working to elevate the domestic from personal to public, I collect, document, reproduce, and distort images and objects from my familial archive. Hyper-femininity and contemporary craft discourse inform my manipulation of self-fashioned and inherited textiles. I pair traditional surface design techniques, including dyeing and screen printing, with digitally manipulated imagery.