Anubha Sood

My work is centered around the sustainable ecology of making that provokes a sentiment addressing our current systems of production and their entanglement with the natural world.

Between Salt and Water

Between Salt and Water focuses on the study of seagrasses and ocean water collected from three oceans and studied through dyeing, weaving, and material softening processes. The focus of this collection of experiments is to observe how the material configures itself to reveal new kinds of information in this case the relationship between our production processes and the natural world. The textile I’ve created uses fresh seaweed woven into a sculptural form that crystallizes over time in response to its immediate environment that alters its structure and texture. I let the material in both its raw and processed state to inform my making - dyeing matter left in the dye bath is used to create paper, softened kelp is used to create yarn, the leftover kelp is used to create lace. The varied processes I employ are cyclical in making and in their return to the earth.

Tablecloth Series

Tablecloth series emerges from an urgency to engage the body in the act of making and reorient it from the overwhelming dissonance of COVID-19. Over the last month, I’ve had to relocate twice and each relocation has found me anticipating the opportunity for a loom. The series builds off the impulse by repurposing ordinary furniture, a table in this case, as a loom. As a result, the fabric borrows its vocabulary from the structure that builds it.

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Email - anubhasood@newschool.edu