Zella Jet Hamilton

I love details, repetition, and movement. I love interaction, tenderness, and fragility. I love thread, wire, and collage. I love metal, wax, and light. Most of all, I love connection and the idea of a connection you can touch.

My work explores tender and quiet themes: our connections, our distances, our longings, and how we communicate with these things and with each other. I use delicate materials (or use materials in a delicate way) to convey these similarly delicate themes.

Just like thread, wire, metal, wax, etc. our connections and feelings will unravel, bend, melt, or otherwise fall apart. My process involves using material to explore how these things fall apart, how they could be preserved, and how I can create motion, interaction, repeated gestures, and intricacy.