Pigeon Friend

Gunnar Widforss

And body autonomy does include things that you don’t personally like either. I was prompted to write this post after a series of bad takes from progressives, but one of them was re-hashing the Sabrina Carpenter album cover drama with “I don’t think it’s conservative of me to think that the album cover is a bad look when we’ve seen images of women being abused in this way” because I do actually think you’ve failed to understand feminism by projecting your morals onto a woman who was consensually expressing her own autonomy just because she expressed it in a way that you didn’t like or that made you uncomfortable.

Body autonomy also means unhealthy choices. Body autonomy also means regret rates. Body autonomy also means freedom of sexuality. Body autonomy also means mutilation. If you believe body autonomy has limitations and exceptions, then your feminism is most likely surface level.

Pics from my June 2025 gallery show "Soft Portals" in Lafayette, Indiana!!

SOFT PORTALS is the culmination of 14 years of always crocheting something, and only sometimes finishing anything. Many abandoned projects and lots of scrap yarn have found their way into these works. My process involves a lot of “what if” & “yes, and” thinking - a bit too often I'm known to say “it just needs one more thing”.

I set out to put together a show that explores the potential of crochet in gallery context, and to ruminate more on large-scale installation as a framework for my fiber art practice. I also thought a lot about the impact slow art forms have on subject matter - what can it mean to spend countless hours lovingly rendering the mundane?

This body of work has been a labor of love, and there's nothing I love more than putting an insane amount of effort into something kind of silly. It's my elaborate expression of devotion to the inherent absurdity of being an alive human person who can make things. It’s weird, difficult, and wonderful, and it’s the reason I'm here. I'm glad you are too.

María Luisa Roësset y Velasco, aka Marisa Roësset (1904-1976, Spanish) ~ Autorretrato tumbada (Supine Self-portrait), 1927