Catcher, 2025

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Catcher, 2025

A$2,000.00

Reclaimed Leather Baseball Gloves
100× 100 × 15cm

Catcher 2025 brings together a collection of vintage baseball gloves into a one-metre circular assemblage. Aged leathers—steerhide, cowhide and kip—are layered and reconfigured to form a unified, tactile composition.

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In this work, I disassemble and reconfigure vintage baseball gloves into a single circular form. Carefully arranged across a one-metre round, the piece draws attention to the textures of worn leather—each surface carrying the marks of use and time.

Elements such as finger stalls, webbing, palms and lacing are layered and repositioned, creating a new composition from objects originally shaped for individual purpose.

The work references the roles within a team—pitcher, catcher, infielder, outfielder—while also acknowledging the craftsmanship embedded in each glove. By reworking these familiar forms, I’m interested in how materials hold memory, and how objects shaped by labour and play can carry forward quiet stories of the past.