In this work, Wielebinski creates a large tapestry from multiple ‘scarves.’ Printed on the textiles, Wielebinski layers found imagery with their drawings of monstrous figures to create ambiguous narratives. The imagery oscillates between beauty and the grotesque, creating new possibilities of embodiment. Collage is an essential mode of making for Wielebinski, for in its hybridity there is a sense of becoming – they are drawn to its potential power to subvert or create context or meanings, often from what already exists. The process of collaging runs through their practice in many forms – there is a constant layering of imagery, materiality and concept, to create works in textile, video, sculpture and on paper. An avid collector, Wielebinski’s source material comes from their vast archive which has developed from childhood.

‘Ultimately, this work is about reckoning with our relationships to the earth and the world around us, to our own mythologies and histories we’ve been taught and perpetuate either through belief or ignorance, the iconographies, statues, and heroes we hold up, the systems we don’t question and have been told are inevitable, and the need to broaden our scope of vision and see beyond ourselves in order to recognize the potential and necessity of working collectively and to greater goods rather than only look out for ourselves, or we are doomed to continue to repeat our same mistakes ad infinitum.’ (Wielebinski, 2021)