Feelings, Felt

“Felt” exists as both a verb and a noun. What does it mean for something to be matted down, becoming compressed, manageable? What does it mean to actually engage with your feelings?

These soft sculptures begin with phrases set in a homemade digital typeface which is printed and then run over again through a scanner. As a collaboration between maker and machine, the text becomes formed by movement, chance, and digital capture. From there, a printed pattern is made, meticulously hand cut, and sewn— using felt as a patient and forgiving material for making one’s most persistent, invisible thoughts tangible. Carefully stitched, these inquiries and admissions become real: embodied as drooping banners, humorous action bubbles, and precariously balancing phrases. They are an earnest question—perhaps we all feel this way?

Visible from the street below, they aim to delight or confound bystanders. During open hours, visit The Neon Needle upstairs as well to see an additional series of sewn sculptures inside.