Boyfriend Pillow

Found materials (cotton fabric, cotton, artist’s pillow stuffing)
1000 mm x 450 mm  x 450 mm 
Hand-sewn

Boyfriend Pillow is an exploration of the relationships we foster with textile objects. Informed by connection, memory, love and loss - cloth acts as a threshold between our inner and outer worlds. Often made from woven fabrics, transitional objects provide psychological comfort, most commonly in infants, but in this instance, as a salve between the internal and external realities when faced with separation from our intimate lovers