Elise Love- McCorkle

Since 2021, love-mccorkle has practiced low-cost and sustainable artistic creation by reusing her materials, using spare or leftover supplies provided by the art spaces in which she has worked, and by repurposing items that she finds set out on the sidewalk.

Before trail ride came to exist as a textile work, it was a failed painting from 2023 that she had tried, unsuccessfully, to salvage by segmenting and reassembling it using scissors and contact glue. Until earlier this year, it sat in a corner of her studio, rolled up.

While trail ride is intended for the commercial market, Rather than seeing it as a product, as an interdisciplinary artist, Love-McCorkle understands it as an assembly of her practice—a part that functionally contributes to a cohesive study, to a larger processing machine. To fasten this assembly together, the components she has used are fully threaded bolts secured with nuts.