Endless, installation detail natural latex, size variable
Endless, detail 1
Endless, detail 2
Endless,
Endless consists of hollow latex feet dispersed across the floor in a shifting field of fragmented bodies and traces of passage. Cast from the artist’s own feet, the translucent forms hover between presence and absence, vulnerability and disappearance.
Individually isolated yet collectively connected, the work reflects on migration not as a singular event, but as an ongoing human condition shaped by displacement, precarity, labor, survival, and the search for belonging. Born in Northern England in a town marked by flooding, economic decline, and generational migration, Sanders later moved across Canada and the United States with her family in search of work and stability. These experiences of movement, instability, and impermanence continue to shape her understanding of place, borders, and fragile systems of belonging.
Natural latex, a material derived from trees and historically entangled with colonial trade, extraction, and labor, becomes central to the work’s meaning. Skin-like and unstable, it slowly changes over time, darkening, hardening, and deteriorating. Its transformation carries a sense of bodily fragility and reflects the impermanence that can accompany displacement.
Rather than illustrating a single story, Endless holds space for the countless lives moving through political, social, and environmental structures that often fail to recognize their full humanity.