WORKING CLOTH.
This piece consists of six 100% handmade bags, each accompanied by a bag scarf and keychain. Informed by my experiences visiting markets throughout Thailand, the work adopts the visual language of functional market objects while deliberately resisting the logic of replication and sale. Through a rigorous, labor-intensive process of dyeing, embellishment, and construction, each bag is intentionally made unique, foregrounding difference, time, and the visible hand of the maker. Presented outside of a commercial context, the work reframes craft as a site of visibility rather than productivity. The bags function as suspended commodities, offering a commentary on the privilege of making less, and on the tension between labor, authorship, and economic worth within contemporary craft and art economies.