“One may think of…. [a cultivated plant’s] whole history as a complicated fabric, the warp of which is made up of all the varieties of the crop, the woof, all of the various uses to which it has been put.”

(Edgar Anderson. Plants, Man, and Life. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2005. pp. 110)

Woven of white navy beans, Cloth is a malleable piece, obscuring and revealing, weighing upon yet conforming to the contours of the body. Both the cultivated bean and the structure that is imposed upon them by the act of weaving, represent human desire and control; the manifestation of this desire weighs down its creator, gently restricting the body, obscuring identity, and implying submission.