Daily Bread

Little basket-like pieces, made mainly from discarded plastic bread bags using a technique from the very dawn of humankind, coiled basketry. Give us this our daily bread…

Using our hands to work fibres from our immediate natural environment, gathering and creating and slowly building up skills over generations – in other words, craft – is deeply human. Hunters and gatherers have lived skillfully off their immediate environment for thousands of years, using materials directly at hand. The materials at hand though, have changed, the environment irreparably altered.