Much like the process of a magpie collecting detritus to adorn its world, Kasia Töns deliberately threads together disparate discards of the day to create modular, soft, safe havens that defy expectations of dwellings as we know them.
Currently housed at Ararat Gallery TAMA is Panoply, Töns’s textile sculptures which welcome onlookers past a gallery-centric look-but-don’t-touch threshold. These visionary works predict communal notions of safety for times of strife. The nucleus is Panoply II, an alternative disaster shelter at human scale, consolidating decades of time spent embroidering.
