SF/Arts Curator Insight

A regular volunteer at Fabrica, the Santa Cruz-based textile salvage workshop, fabric/collage artist Victoria May's recent works include a collaboration about the Pacific Ocean garbage patch. I wonder if her Fourth Wall show's title, Incremental, refers to the frustratingly slow cultural change humans are currently making, while the need for radical transformation becomes more urgent. May uses only found or repurposed materials which, as a former bridal shop seamstress, she hand and machine stitches into sometimes funny, sometimes melancholy sculptures that tenderly contemplate the stuff of life.