Yahn Nemirovsky
Sloppy Craft is Archival Love investigates the power of sloppy craft to challenge binary understandings that inform value assignment in craft, with zines and stitching samplers as its objects of reference. The term ‘sloppy craft’ may be used not only in reference to objects which are intentionally unfinished, but also to that making which is inherently radical. Sloppy craft facilitates that craft can break from norm, tradition, and common understanding in ways that give it resounding presence.
The making of zines and stitching samplers involves processes which refuse fixity, and both objects act as carriers for personal narratives that might otherwise have been erased. This series of hybrid zine-sampler pieces invites the viewer into a scene piled with traces of odd familiarity—my own personal archive of objects unfinished, unnamed, and unfixable—brought together in sloppy craft’s archival love, which is to say, a love that determines its own means of keeping.
