A Candle of Peace was Posted for Cynthia Ann “Cindy” (Flores) Flores-Cockrell
Hand woven image of a candle, lotus, and rocks from my moms obituary, hand spun yarn made with fiber from santiago the alpaca, george the goat, possum the sheep, and silk hankies, mohair curly locks, wool, silk, indigo, walnut, cochineal, madder root, marigold, hibiscus, and acid dye that despite what the internet told me does not glow in the dark / 2023 42" × 28"A hymn about grief on the internet, the speed of wool, digital footprints, and the grid.
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- About
Justin R. Cockrell (they/them) is a craft artist, printmaker, and storyteller from Columbus, Ohio, currently living, learning, and making in Richmond, Virginia. Their practice is rooted in the objects and materials related to the concept of “home” and explores ways that queerness, grief, and race can shape domestic space. Focusing in textiles they translate techniques such as natural dyeing, quilting, and cloth production with wood and metal to chronicle a magical realist perspective of the grotesque and beautiful truths of being raised on the internet at the beginning of the end of the world. They have exhibited in the Made in VA 2022 exhibition at the Virginia MOCA in Virginia Beach, SRSLY R U OK IRL?: Furniture to promote social interaction, and To Keep You Warm: an exhibition of quilts at the Anderson Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. Justin is pursuing a BFA in craft/material studies and a BA in Spanish at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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- Richmond, VA
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Portfolio
Anansi stool under detail
basket weave quilt pattern cut with a die grinder
Cinderblock stool
power carved ash from slavery times in Richmond, Virginia, milk paint / 2023 24" × 20" × 14"An ode to the random things we sit on a campfires, and how power gets lost in translation over the Atlantic ocean
Polaris table
Ebonized poplar, White oak, White Pine, home made milk paint from exhausted dye baths of onion and spinach / 2022 24"× 24" × 24"a lullaby for my baby cousins about the promises of freedom, and flipping cars
Gumbo spoons
Hand carved white oak and poplar, Indigo, Hand knit Cotton, metal finding / 2022 ~14" × 3" × 1"a triptych of spoons to nourish the body and boul
Anansi stool
Power carved cherry / 2023 24" × 24" × 14"an oral history about rest for storytellers
A Candle of Peace was Posted for Cynthia Ann "Cindy" (Flores) Flores-Cockrell
Hand woven image of a candle, lotus, and rocks from my moms obituary, hand spun yarn made with fiber from santiago the alpaca, george the goat, possum the sheep, and silk hankies, mohair curly locks, wool, silk, indigo, walnut, cochineal, madder root, marigold, hibiscus, and acid dye that despite what the internet told me does not glow in the dark / 2023 42" × 28"A hymn about grief on the internet, the speed of wool, digital footprints, and the grid.