Swarm poses with her brick props from her performance piece titled "Portal Workers Unlimited," in which she dresses as a Space Janitor and builds a wall.

Black Hole Network: a hot-pink needle-felted net made from mohair and acrylic fibres.

Time Wrap: a tubular fabric ring hand-embroidered with stars. / Wearing self-made Mirror Earrings.

Spacetime Fabric: silk organza fabric treated with the labour-intesive batik dyeing process to create stars. Each star was created by a drip of wax, then the fabric was dyed and the wax was removed, leaving undyed dots. 

Omnipotent Hands: satin gloves adorned with acrylic paint stars. / BB Black Hole: a black ball needle-felted from black acrylic wool. / Multiverse necklace: crafted from laser-cut wood, hand-painted with acrylic paint and constructed with stainless steel jewelry findings and chain.

Celestial Sphere: foam hand-painted with acrylic. / Observable Universes earrings: made from pink glass beads and laser-cut wood, then hand-painted.

Multiverse Waffle Weave: a lengthy woven fabric made of mercerized cotton and black dye. The color-variation in the cotton yarn was created using the ikat dyeing techinique, and then woven on a floor loom in a "waffle weave," creating recessed squares reminiscent of the infinity mirror effect.

Photography, Interveiw – Selina Vesely
Artist, Stylist, Props – Swarm
Graphic Design – Sulah Kim (Blanck Studios)
Montréal, QC

Multidisciplinary artist based in the NYC area,
previously based in Montréal, QC. 

 Currently working at Hartz Studio.
Email: selina[at]hartz.studio

Selina Vesely © 2022