CHARLOTTE RICHARDSON-DEPPE
ATTACHMENTS
I am thinking about attachments.
I am thinking about reliance and the impossibility of an existence of
non-reliance.
I am thinking about kinship and systems and machines and bodies.
I am thinking about the development of a language of angles bent into steel
rods, and red cloth stretched taut and fixed in place.
I am thinking about the manipulation of relationships, material
relationships and human ones.
I am thinking about the optimism required to keep living in this world in
order to keep attaching and relying and interdepending.
A mandatory optimism.
Binding, tying, welding, melting, joining, knotting.
I have to trust the string not to break when I pull it,
and to bind when I tie it;
The metal not to break when I bend it,
but to give way when I cut it.
I have to measure before I cut or bend or weld and I have to trust my
measurement.
Or if I don't measure I have to trust my eye and my hand to measure without
measuring.
I depend on my tape measure
my eye,
my hand,
my arm,
my body,
my boots.
You depend on your ligaments, your tendons, your flesh bones skin.
All dependent on each other, never isolated, never alone.
I have to trust the screws to stay in the wall.
Supporting the metal, supporting the thread, supporting the cloth.
I have to trust the fishing line to stay tied to the ceiling, and these ink print
letters, arranged in words, to stay on this wall.
And so do you.





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Attachments. 2019. Solo gallery show in Smith Gallery, Joe Rosenfield Center, Grinnell College. Steel, cloth, thread, crayon.

Attachments Collages. 2019. Physical collaged digital prints of photographs. (Note: Click image and zoom to read text).