Jennifer Coghill   
Textile Art

This series began with the creation of Café Curtains in 2023, a window installation at Hamers Coffee in Toronto for the Design TO Festival. Developed as a commentary on our throw-away consumer culture, Coffee Culture is now an ongoing body of work that experiments with a specific set of cast-off materials (used tea bags, coffee filters and discarded coffee packaging) to explore themes of home, ritual, memory and the alchemy of re-use.

While the ritual of our daily coffee or cup of tea can give us a momentary sense of comfort, the refuse from that simple daily habit slowly adds to our ongoing issues with landfill. As with fast fashion and home decor trends, many consumers don't consider the longer term effects of their purchases. By using these unexpected substrates to create art or decorative objects, the resulting contrast between what they were, and what they have become, challenges conventional notions of beauty and value, and asks viewers to reimagine their rituals of consumption and waste.

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