SugarCane and SweetCorn rows 

2020, Recycled jersey yarn on steel 

The chair draws a parallel between hair plaiting and textile weaving.

Traditional African hairstyles are structural in their essence.

Plaits styles reveal British and American colonial history. 

“Canerows” in the UK as enslaved Africans cultivated sugar cane fields.

“Cornrows” in the USA for they cultivated corn fields.

An ocean separates yet links shared histories.