About

B. Jean Larson
b.1993 Southeast Iowa
Textile artist, writer, vocalist

I am interested in the mass consumption of objects, people, land, and how usefulness and uselessness are assigned to these things. What society values is allowed to exist. Undesirable land is made desirable when it is drained and plowed over. Objects are thrown away to pollute somewhere else. Bodies and minds are forced to assimilate.

I employ the lens of queer craft to reclaim, reappropriate, and reidentify utilitarian textile craft for myself and for other bodyminds that textiles have been utilized to soothe. The materials I work with are unwanted by their previous owners. By using repetitive techniques, I am able to bring small parts into a whole that are complete, useless, and useful in and of themselves.