Margot Young

“My work and I are interested in warmth. This is the word I choose for it, though it has also been referred to as protection, softness, and nurturing. My work seeks it out, pokes at it, and perhaps most frequently, examines where it goes wrong. I have been told that I fetishize detail in my work. I think that detail is my work, that there is little to no distinction between the two. It is in the color, the stitching, the nature of the seams that the work becomes anything at all.

This care, the core of my work, is what I strive to make most visible. This is not so much to impress upon the viewer the effort that went into its making, but to make them similarly feel cared for. As much as my body is a part of my work, so is yours. The object is in this way a conduit, a stand-in, a mode of transmitting this feeling from me to you.”

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