A Fragile Order was created from silk, gathered sheep’s wool, thread, and acrylic. The wool was collected from fences on Ireland’s remote coast, where sheep had rubbed against wire and left fragments of fleece behind. Much of the wool still carries the colored markings used by farmers to identify and manage their animals. These marks are beautiful, yet they are also evidence of a fragile, human made order, a way of claiming ownership, separating, and managing what is alive.

The silk ground has been partially dismantled, its woven structure opened and released into long hanging threads. What begins as an ordered surface becomes fragile and porous, no longer fully able to hold its own form. As humans, we often try to organize and manage living systems we do not fully understand.

Held within an open acrylic frame, the work sits between natural fiber and manufactured containment. The acrylic protects, preserves, and separates, while the loosened silk resists enclosure, falling beyond the logic of the frame. A Fragile Order considers what happens when the structures we create to contain the living world begin to come undone.