A Frayed Knot by Douglas Dale

“A Frayed Knot is a collection of fiber sculpture constructed through hours of painstakingly contoured yarn built up into second skins over furniture, hunting decoys, lumber, and mixed media. Inspired by drag, theater, and the club scene, the work evokes camp and camouflage to interrogate the difference between presentation and identity and what information is lost in the application of a rigid taxonomy.

Proudly trans nonbinary, the artist extends their own queering unto inanimate objects. The work aims to break presumed polarities and encapsulate the full spectrum of hard and soft, wood and fiber, masculine and feminine.”