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Photo by Jacob Wall https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2771538013921652260460783193659/fiber-3.jpg A Candle of Peace was posted for Cynthia Ann 'Cindy' (Flores) Flores-Cockrell 2023 ~34” x ~42” Hand woven image of a candle, lotus, and rocks from my mom’s online obituary, industrially and manually spun wool yarn made with fiber from Santiago the alpaca, George the goat, Possum the sheep, and silk hankies mohair curly locks, silk, indigo, walnut, cochineal, madder root, marigold, hibiscus, and acid dye that glows in the dark if I try hard enough I don’t have many memories or images of my mom, I was too young when she died for me to have ever known Cindy. However, I do have google, my name, and a digital footprint of the people who survive by me. My mom’s obituary is full of people’s memories of Cindy the stranger and it makes me feel closer to her. With every comment the website lets me know that a candle of peace was posted for her with the image seen in this tapestry accompanying the text. Photo by Jacob Wall https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2771538013976992492681911848507/fiber-metal-.jpg Zeal? Zealot? Zealous? Prefix? Suffix!????? 2025 34” x 70” Cleaned, PrEPd, Naturally dyed, Knotted, netted, looped, twined, woven, and draped sisal modano lace, raffia, and polyester of different industrial origins Hot and cold forged, filed, & planished copper netting needle Lace, and poetry are sisters, perceived as frivolous, they are forms that strive to use the least amount of material expertly arranged into emotional and breathy forms. Zeal? Zealot? Zealous? Prefix? Suffix!????? Is my call to advocacy for both forms and their uses when pushed to monumental scale. This lace curtain is a technique called Modano lace, which is a net substrate with needlework pattern fills dancing across it in a wall of troy twill pattern that dissolves into pink tassels. This piece was made with tools I made to accommodate its creation. Photo by Justin Cockrell and Emily Silverd https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2771538013847865284165944987195/fiber.jpg a Safety Net, to Reach Across the Atlantic 2023 Dimensions variable, each blanket ~60”x ~80” before manual distortion Cleaned, mordanted, resited, printed, naturally dyed, cut, pieced, quilted, bound, netted and industrially and manually woven cotton cut, pieced, and wet felted silk gauze and merino wool given to me by a Black woman born by the ocean in Virginia Indigo and madder root like the original american flag, Black tea, rhubarb, and lac What would happen if I could cast a safety net across the Atlantic? Could I catch the wayward ancestors who choose the sea floor over servitude? Would the cotton of my clothes unspin itself and slip back into the ground where we will both eventually return? Would I remember everything that happened before Elmina castle? This triptych celebrates Black southern quilting, reflects on the traumatic water based transition of wet felting, and the middle passage, and reaches to the textiles deep in my dna from an ocean away. Photo by Jacob Wall https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2771538013903205516387073642043/fiber-1.jpg Diva down 2025 40” x 50” Scoured, Mordanted, naturally, and chemcially dyed, woven and knotted sisal and wool Photo by Jacob Wall https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2771538013940099004534492745275/flamBOYant-2.JPG FlamBOYant 2025 Ring Cut and tangled polyester thread Photo by the artist https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2771538013884758772313364090427/fiber-wood.jpg & for a second she turned the sky pink 2024 18 x 18 x 32 Milled machined, glued, cut, sanded, painted, sanded, dyed and sanded again ash wood Cut, pieced, stitched,stuffed, and tufted scrap denim Photo by jacob wall. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2771538013829418540092235435579/paper-fiber-wood-.jpg Interlacements (sweeping, retting, and stick figures) 2024 Dimensions variable, each figure ~3’ tall Milled, machined, steam bent, and finished poplar, scoured, mordanted, and dyed linen and raffia, Lashed and cinched, tall grass lawn clippings from Norfolk, Connecticut, Indigo and weld Netted, plaited, and wound jute holding paper mulberry bark from my backyard in Richmond, Virginia, milled, turned and finished poplar, various textile tools from needles to shuttles Found, drilled, sawn, dyed and rejoined stick from Norfolk, Connecticut, cleaned fleece from a goat named george. As an object maker I struggle with the double consciousness of knowing I am a craftsperson, but the world interprets my work as sculpture. Starting from the action of piercing, I asked my material what the craft intervention is instead of the sculptural intervention. The resulting figures are a tool for retting ( breaking down) mulberry fiber, a hanger for a broom, and an attempt at arboreal necromancy. photo jacob by jacob wall https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2771538013810971796018525883963/paper-fiber.jpg Lawnmower 2024 18” x 20” Cyanotype and van dyke brown photograph of lawn clippings on cotton paper Scan by the artist https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2771538014032332724903040503355/fiber-metal-wood.jpg Illuminating figures (sentinel & paragon) 7' x 14" x 21" 2025 milled, laminated, carved, steam bent, sanded, painted, and sanded white oak sunk, angle raised, fold formed, hammered, coined, and fabricated, brass, white quartz cleaned, mordanted, naturally, chemically dyed, twined, woven and knotted basket reeds, sisal & silk gauze, nylon covered electric cord, filament light bulb a lamp as tall as my brother with a light bulb at the height of my heart. The lamp functions as a pendulum. Pendulums are simple divination tools where a crystal is suspended in space and then can answer yes or no questions by swinging one way or another. This lamp feels like the logical result of making furniture to answer questions and bring the spirit of the trees into my home. photo by jacob wall and david handforth https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2771538013755631563797397229115/DSCF2851.jpg Kiss me thru the phone (pieced and quilted REMIX) (quilt Top) 2023 70" x 90" Scoured, Mordanted, Chemically and naturally dyed, printed, cut, pieced, and quilted cotton logwood, indigo, and black eyed Susans, iron, Machined, milled, cut glued sanded ebonized and finished pine, nude of the artist mordant printed and dyed with black eyed Susans Photo by Jacob Wall https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2771538013737184819723687677499/DSCF2848.jpg Kiss me thru the phone (pieced and quilted REMIX) (quilt back) 2023 70" x 90" Scoured, Mordanted, Chemically and naturally dyed, printed, cut, pieced, and quilted cotton logwood, indigo, and black eyed Susans, iron, Machined, milled, cut glued sanded ebonized and finished pine, nude of the artist mordant printed and dyed with black eyed Susans Photo by Jacob Wall https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2771538013718738075649978125883/DSCF2844.jpg A Candle of Peace (REMIX) 2023 ~34” x ~42” Hand woven image of a candle, lotus, and rocks from my mom’s online obituary, industrially and manually spun wool yarn made with fiber from Santiago the alpaca, George the goat, Possum the sheep, and silk hankies mohair curly locks, silk, indigo, walnut, cochineal, madder root, marigold, hibiscus, Photo by Justin Cockrell https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2771538013700291331576268574267/DSCF2833-2.jpg The Fools Journey 2023 32” x 32” Cut, hemmed, 4 layer linocut on cotton Spun and plied wool, dyed clothes pins, indigo Prop made for short film made in collaboration with Jacob Wall Photo by Jacob Wall https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2771538013220675985659820232251/DSCF2790-2.jpg Granny Square 2022 34” x 34” Cut, hemmed, 4 layer linocut on cotton Mardi gras beads, old earrings, fake pearls Photo by Jacob Wall https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2771538013866312028239654538811/fiber-wood-.png Fraternal figures 2024 105” from one end to the other, about 40” when they balance each other out Cleaned, Mordanted, Naturally dyed, twined, and woven round and flat second hand basket reeds, and sisal from lowes, glass trade beads, sunk, raised, planished, hammered, separated, and patinated copper, riveted brass, and a really big sienna pigment rock from the bottom of a lake in Connecticut. Fresh and reduced indigo, osage, annatto, a little bit of copper pickle in the dye pot to change the colors When I look at the mythology of brotherhood, I am struck quickly over the head with the violence, specifically in the founding of Rome. I don’t want to alienate myself from my brother, my mother gave her children the namesakes of Justice and Truth, and I want the world to hold us close. The inception of this piece was a copper pitcher, raised from a flat disk to a level of use, then separated and rejoined through the intervention of my language of serenity - fiber. photo by jacob wall https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2771538013995439236755621400123/fiber-.JPG Gutted 2025 About the same height as the artist (5’10”) from horn to tail Wet and needle felted unicorn pelt from wool industrially and manually processed feat. cleaned, and carded fiber from Santiago the alpaca, George the goat, Possum and Poppy the sheep, and a chorus of many unnamed merino sheep and a few goats, dyed and woven basket reeds hot fuchsia, turquoise and chartreuse acid dyes Textiles are unfortunately shackled to the majesty of tapestry, I am no doubt a disciple of them, but I wonder about the fate of the unicorn after the hunt? This piece lives in a body of work concerned with rugs and being thrown on the floor and the roughness of wet felting on the body. Photo by Justin Cockrell https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2771538014013885980829330951739/server.jpg Server 2025 Dimensions dont really matter tbh but the carpet is 39” x 48” Chemically and naturally dyed cotton, sisal, silk, and secondhand basket reeds feat some wool from @hautbeau Photo by the artist https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2774613654300010368895650614843/wisdom-knot-chair-1.jpg & Only the Wise Can Undo the Knot 2025 23” x 23” x 29” 17” seat height Milled, machined, joined, power carved, hand shaved, sanded, painted, and sanded again ash wood cleaned, PrEPd, naturally dyed, wound, warped, threaded, sleyed, woven and brocaded sisal rope, and twine hand spun, scoured, mordanted, naturally and chemically dyed, caked, wound, and woven linen yarn Synthetic pink polyester thread Marigold yellow, julep, and bayberry milk paint Indigo, logwood (campeche), cochineal (cochinilla), myrobalan, achiote (annatto), hibiscus Turquoise and Fuschia mx dyes A chair made in response to the wisdom knot Akan power stool meditating on doing and undoing. As a spinster, weaver, dyer, etc where does that leave me? This chair was made through faith in the natural world being able to support my weight at the end of the day. My reality is a marvelous one and I just want to make folkloric objects from my personal mythology. I am imperfect so why would u ever demand the same from my material or my objects? Photo by Jacob Wall and David Handforth https://justinrcockrell.com/wood 2026-02-01T21:19:25+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2770067993089332531103309221435/heartsdelight.png Wonder Woman Spoon 2022 26” x 6” Milled, machined, carved, sanded, and dyed poplar Cleaned, dyed, knit, and knotted cotton Metal finding Photo by Jacob Wall https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2771547934230126964057160797755/wisdom-knot-chair-1.jpg & Only the Wise Can Undo the Knot 2025 23” x 23” x 29” 17” seat height Milled, machined, joined, power carved, hand shaved, sanded, painted, and sanded again ash wood cleaned, PrEPd, naturally dyed, wound, warped, threaded, sleyed, woven and brocaded sisal rope, and twine hand spun, scoured, mordanted, naturally and chemically dyed, caked, wound, and woven linen yarn Synthetic pink polyester thread Marigold yellow, julep, and bayberry milk paint Indigo, logwood (campeche), cochineal (cochinilla), myrobalan, achiote (annatto), hibiscus Turquoise and Fuschia mx dyes A chair made in response to the wisdom knot Akan power stool meditating on doing and undoing. As a spinster, weaver, dyer, etc where does that leave me? This chair was made through faith in the natural world being able to support my weight at the end of the day. My reality is a marvelous one and I just want to make folkloric objects from my personal mythology. I am imperfect so why would u ever demand the same from my material or my objects? Photo by Jacob Wall and David Handforth https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2771547934267020452204579900987/fiber-metal-wood.jpg Illuminating figures (sentinel & paragon) 7' x 14" x 21" 2025 milled, laminated, carved, steam bent, sanded, painted, and sanded white oak sunk, angle raised, fold formed, hammered, coined, and fabricated, brass, white quartz cleaned, mordanted, naturally, chemically dyed, twined, woven and knotted basket reeds, sisal & silk gauze, nylon covered electric cord, filament light bulb a lamp as tall as my brother with a light bulb at the height of my heart. The lamp functions as a pendulum. Pendulums are simple divination tools where a crystal is suspended in space and then can answer yes or no questions by swinging one way or another. This lamp feels like the logical result of making furniture to answer questions and bring the spirit of the trees into my home. photo by jacob wall and david handforth https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2771547934137893243688613039675/DSCF2860.jpg Anansi Stool 2023 17” x 23” by 17” Milled, laminated, power carved, textured, and painted cherry Photo by Jacob Wall https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2771547934248573708130870349371/wood-metal-2.jpg Sankofa table 2025 28” x 18” x 12” Milled, machined, textured, glued, sanded, painted, and sanded again maple Hot forged, formed, chased, repousséd, and patinated copper https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2771547934156339987762322591291/paper-fiber-wood-.jpg Interlacements (sweeping, retting, and stick figures) 2024 Dimensions variable, each figure ~3’ tall Milled, machined, steam bent, and finished poplar, scoured, mordanted, and dyed linen and raffia, Lashed and cinched, tall grass lawn clippings from Norfolk, Connecticut, Indigo and weld Netted, plaited, and wound jute holding paper mulberry bark from my backyard in Richmond, Virginia, milled, turned and finished poplar, various textile tools from needles to shuttles Found, drilled, sawn, dyed and rejoined stick from Norfolk, Connecticut, cleaned fleece from a goat named george. As an object maker I struggle with the double consciousness of knowing I am a craftsperson, but the world interprets my work as sculpture. Starting from the action of piercing, I asked my material what the craft intervention is instead of the sculptural intervention. The resulting figures are a tool for retting ( breaking down) mulberry fiber, a hanger for a broom, and an attempt at arboreal necromancy. photo jacob by jacob wall https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2771547934193233475909741694523/fiber-wood.jpg & for a second she turned the sky pink 2024 18 x 18 x 32 Milled machined, glued, cut, sanded, painted, sanded, dyed and sanded again ash wood Cut, pieced, stitched,stuffed, and tufted scrap denim Photo by jacob wall. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2771547933879638826656679317051/138F97F9-8973-4E9D-9157-2D0C0275711E.jpeg Wonder Woman Spoon 2022 26” x 6” Milled, machined, carved, sanded, and dyed poplar Cleaned, dyed, knit, and knotted cotton Metal finding Photo by Jacob Wall https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2771547934211680219983451246139/fiber-wood-1.jpg Carpetbagger (I dream of rivers of molten bronze, and a city of sleeping giants.) 2024 28” x 28” Woven excerpt from Lee’s Surrender overshot coverlet, chemically and naturally dyed cotton, hand spun yarn made with fiber from santiago the alpaca, george the goat, possum the sheep, and silk hankies, acid dye that glows in the dark if I try hard enough and a paper mulberry branch from my back yard. Photo by Jacob Wall https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2771547934174786731836032142907/fiber-wood-.png Fraternal figures 2024 105” from one end to the other, about 40” when they balance each other out Cleaned, Mordanted, Naturally dyed, twined, and woven round and flat second hand basket reeds, and sisal from lowes, glass trade beads, sunk, raised, planished, hammered, separated, and patinated copper, riveted brass, and a really big sienna pigment rock from the bottom of a lake in Connecticut. Fresh and reduced indigo, osage, annatto, a little bit of copper pickle in the dye pot to change the colors When I look at the mythology of brotherhood, I am struck quickly over the head with the violence, specifically in the founding of Rome. I don’t want to alienate myself from my brother, my mother gave her children the namesakes of Justice and Truth, and I want the world to hold us close. The inception of this piece was a copper pitcher, raised from a flat disk to a level of use, then separated and rejoined through the intervention of my language of serenity - fiber. photo by jacob wall https://justinrcockrell.com/metal 2026-02-01T22:40:31+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2771588679822712087410089905723/IMG_3966.png Hammer room samples 2024 Sunk, formed, chased, repousséd, Hot and cold forged,planished pierced, pressed soldered, and polished copper Sawn, formed, soldered, pierced, and riveted brass Glass trade beads knotted on ankara with a forged closure Photo by the artist https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2771588714041422344141308153403/devotionals_bracelet-1-2.JPG Devotionals (starshine bracelet) 2024 Made to fit on ur wrist Lost wax cast, cut, polished, and water patinated bronze Scoured, dyed, and knotted notted silk, glass fresh leaf indigo, Photo by the artist https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2771592083228546942748653506107/cockrell_justin_FGT.jpg FGT rings 2025 Sizes 10-11 Cast, cut, filed, polished, and hammered sterling silver Clear quartz Candy wrapper from Untitled (portrait of Ross in L.A.) by Felix González Torres Latex by ellie lore Photo by the artist https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2771592083394567639412039470651/fgt-ring-2.JPG Fgt ring detail 2025 Sizes 10-11 Cast, cut, filed, polished, and hammered sterling silver Clear quartz Candy wrapper from Untitled (portrait of Ross in L.A.) by Felix González Torres Latex by ellie lore Photo by the artist https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2771592587064467827977636793915/fiber-metal-wood.jpg Illuminating figures (sentinel & paragon) 7' x 14" x 21" 2025 milled, laminated, carved, steam bent, sanded, painted, and sanded white oak sunk, angle raised, fold formed, hammered, coined, and fabricated, brass, white quartz cleaned, mordanted, naturally, chemically dyed, twined, woven and knotted basket reeds, sisal & silk gauze, nylon covered electric cord, filament light bulb a lamp as tall as my brother with a light bulb at the height of my heart. The lamp functions as a pendulum. Pendulums are simple divination tools where a crystal is suspended in space and then can answer yes or no questions by swinging one way or another. This lamp feels like the logical result of making furniture to answer questions and bring the spirit of the trees into my home. photo by jacob wall and david handforth https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2771592840614965121115423755835/devotional_cross-1-1.JPG Devotional (Clinging Cross) 2024 Made to fit in your hand. Lost wax cast, cut, polished, and water patinated bronze Dyed and woven basket reeds Indigo Photo by the artist https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2774622460572716973024787025467/pearly-1.JPG Twirly 2024 19” Fresh water pearls, glass beads, fake pearls knotted on dyed silk and polyester thread Cut, fabricated, hammered, and stamped sterling silver Photo by the artist https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2774622872285597954148269542971/Screenshot-2026-01-30-at-17.08.57.png Selfie spoon 2024 Hot and cold forged, formed, planished pierced, pressed soldered, and polished copper Photo by the artist https://justinrcockrell.com/paper-1 2026-02-01T21:19:25+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2771600984428198550187142532667/paper-fiber-wood-.jpg Interlacements (sweeping, retting, and stick figures) 2024 Dimensions variable, each figure ~3’ tall Milled, machined, steam bent, and finished poplar, scoured, mordanted, and dyed linen and raffia, Lashed and cinched, tall grass lawn clippings from Norfolk, Connecticut, Indigo and weld Netted, plaited, and wound jute holding paper mulberry bark from my backyard in Richmond, Virginia, milled, turned and finished poplar, various textile tools from needles to shuttles Found, drilled, sawn, dyed and rejoined stick from Norfolk, Connecticut, cleaned fleece from a goat named george. As an object maker I struggle with the double consciousness of knowing I am a craftsperson, but the world interprets my work as sculpture. Starting from the action of piercing, I asked my material what the craft intervention is instead of the sculptural intervention. The resulting figures are a tool for retting ( breaking down) mulberry fiber, a hanger for a broom, and an attempt at arboreal necromancy. photo jacob by jacob wall https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2771601294351945732581319233083/paper-fiber.jpg Lawnmower 2024 18” x 20” Cyanotype and van dyke brown photograph of lawn clippings on cotton paper Scan by the artist https://justinrcockrell.com/contact 2026-02-01T21:19:25+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2771624153963030243079291915835/rising-sun-out-of-gradnmas-polaris.jpeg