Concerned with process and abstraction, Michelle Grabner has dedicated herself to identifying, indexing and transposing patterns. These sculptures are casts of fragments of hand-crocheted and knitted blankets. Collected over decades, these textiles have lent themselves to different modes of “usefulness,” functioning first as an object of comfort and care before becoming the physical framework for fine art objects, losing their original form during this transformation. Through the quasi-alchemical process of casting, Grabner reinvents these domestic objects and relies upon her chosen medium to change the quotidian into the heroic. To create these sculptures, Grabner first made wax positives of the blanket she intended to cast. Molten bronze was then poured into the moulds, burning out both the fabric and wax, thereby sacrificing the original textile. Grabner reassembled the full blanket, changed into bronze, from these constituent parts. The draping form of the reconstituted textile reminds the viewer of Grabner’s process and that this hardened bronze sculpture was once a soft, pliable fabric. Both blanket and bronze are one object with a single linear history.