Soft Target
Mohair and silk pom poms on wood, 2006.
45cm in diameter
Photo credit: Jason Ingram
One in a series of 5. Soft Targets (2006), are the benign products of solitary industry, a relic of childhood and of the low-craft make-do-and-mend era. People feel warmly towards them because they are amongst the first artefacts they ever made for themselves. They are fluffy and warm, and their juxtaposition into concentric circles, sometimes incidentally suggesting floral motifs, belies their final militaristic form the wreath signalling the 'Soft Targets', or civilian casualties, of war.