August 2018
Facilitated by Kirstyn Hom, Ava Sayaka Rosen, Kristin Scheel
Open Windows Cooperative, a community print shop, bindery and collaboration space in the Bayview, hosted a public weaving project at sites around our neighborhood throughout the summer. Our hand-built loom traveled on casters to pressure points around the transit corridor of Third Avenue. We invited friends and passersby to contribute old clothes and leftover fabric —material with stories to tell— to recycle into the rag rug we took turns weaving together.
The ancient art of hand weaving maintains relevance and power as a form of storytelling as well manufacturing. The use of traditional tools and a more tactile process soothes us in an increasingly mechanized age. Our hope is that by weaving together, we can facilitate a more immediate and intuitive dialogue with our community.
Performance based video, 5 min 26 sec
Performed and edited by Kirstyn Hom
This video captures the metamorphosis of a chrysalis in San Francisco’s Sutro Baths. The shell is made out of old receipt papers, notes, and wrappers collected over three months. The gesture of breaking out in this site specific landscape poses questions around consumption, gentrification, and sense of belonging to place.
December 2017
Performance based video, 3 min 55 sec
Performed by Kirstyn Hom
Ava Sayaka Rosen, Camera
Kirstyn Hom, Editing
This video follows a life-sized piece of dryer lint as it cycles through San Francisco’s train stations. I collected lint from my personal dryer, public laundromats, and small business dry cleaners to look at how this material is a result of our bodies shedding memory and time. How do the cyclical escalators, the gust of wind, or the motion of passing bodies continue the decay and rebirth of these materials?
December 2017
Performance based video, 12 min 31 sec
Performed by Alyssa Aviles, Kylie Bryce, Yujin Lim, and Ava Sayaka Rosen
Kirstyn Hom, Camera and Editing
This video explores the unique way each performer disassembles the textile, and how the tension of their bodies propels the transformation of the drawing. I’m also looking at how women can collectively reverse craft work to reclaim spaces.
October 2017
photographic series of performance
July 2017
Time-based Installation (2 hours)
ice, india ink, metal rod, aluminum sheet metal, rope
October 2017
Time based sculpture (18 min)
Wood, acrylic plastic, thread, water, soluble embroidery paper
Interview and video by Mraw Mraw
December 2016
PVC pipes, recycled yarn, wood
12 ft H, 4 ft W, and 2 ft D
February 2013
This interactive sculpture invites viewers to crawl underneath the opening and stand inside.
recycled yarn, wire, fabric
dimensions variable
February 2013
fabric, onion dye, thread, yarn
10 in H x 11 in W (measured flat)
January 2013
