RACER
SPEED
FUKR
RACER,SPEED,FUKR is a textiles, wood and playdough based work that examines the uses methods of weaving as a site for the artist to explore their personal history. Bringing together the historical significance of weaving to Sri Lankan heritage and the aesthetics of European warp weighted looms, Lily has created this work to engage in an intuitive child-like practice of figuring it out as you go.
Signified by the non-traditional use of playdough as weights and found wood sourced from the South Brisbane Cemetery, Lily portrays experiences of their childhood and engages them in the practice of weaving to which they have no experience. Engaging in this undisciplined practice symbolises their lost heritage as a 3rd generation Sri Lankan immigrant, as they attempt to assemble, weigh and weave together a tapestry.
Simple and distant in form, this work displays lost practices of feminine and working class labour, identity, culture and youth exploited and warped by western social culture evoking nostalgia, despair and joy.