interventions: Fabric of Society, II
“The fabric of society” is a metaphor for the social order and in particular is suggestive of the idea that the social order is made of many “threads” (social milieus) that are “woven together (interconnected) and cohesive. The phrase is generally used when the fabric is understood to be “fraying” (the coherence of the whole is coming apart) and the social order is failing and disintegrating. This kind of rhetoric is often mobilized when interlocutors want to emphasize a kind of catastrophic disintegration as a result of some particularly nefarious cause or set of causes (like “neoliberalism” in the contemporary context, or industrialism in the early decades of the industrial revolution)." (Michael Rectenwald)
unsanctioned intervention, New York City, 2022
materials: acrylic paint, acid-free ink, sequined thread, archival Fabriano paper (19 X 26)
