“The Weaver Weeps” is a hand-built sculpture that evokes the form of an unraveling basket—its sagging weight and worn texture alluding to histories of labor, extraction, and exhaustion. This piece is part of an ongoing series that critically engages with what is traditionally labeled as “women’s work”—weaving, sewing, mending—practices often diminished as domestic pastimes or hobbies, yet integral to both artistic production and the broader socio-economic landscape.

The unraveling basket serves as a potent metaphor for the collapse of extraction economies and the exploitation of labor, particularly within post-colonial contexts. Like these economies, which strip resources from the land and people, leaving them depleted, the basket unravels under the strain of time and use, symbolizing the unraveling of social structures built on unsustainable foundations.

Through this series, the artist not only pays homage to craftswomen and makers who have shattered conventions and expanded the boundaries of “women’s work” in art, but also critiques the persistent exploitation of gendered labor in the Global South. The sculpture speaks to the intersections of domesticity, labor, and colonial histories, foregrounding the undervalued tasks that have long supported both the home and the global economy.

As such, these works reveal silenced stories woven into the fabric of our world—stories of invisible labor and resilience that are often overlooked in both historical narratives and contemporary discourse. By interrogating these practices within post-colonial and extractive economies, the work invites a reexamination of domesticity, not as a private, apolitical space, but as one deeply entangled with global systems of power and inequality.