Alice Kettle
This work uses thread—both as material and metaphor—to explore the entanglements of human existence: power and powerlessness, cultural diffusion, territorial boundaries. At its core lies the image of the Gordian knot—a symbol of impossible complexity. But rather than cutting through with force, the piece gestures toward untying, reworking, and reweaving.
Inspired by Donna Haraway, the work imagines a different way to untie inherited, social and environmental tangles—not through resolution, but through new knots, new kinships, and speculative stories. In a tentacular world where everything touches everything else, the thread becomes a method of connection and invention. The artwork stays with the trouble—offering not answers, but hopeful ways to live in the tangle which connects the rest of life on earth with our complex human relationships.