Chandler McWilliams: Practice (Constraint)

April 2019, English, silkscreened Baggu bag (25.5 x 15.5 x 6 in., 100% ripstop nylon (40% recycled)), embroidery kit (needle, needle threader, red embroidery thread, and instructions)Edition of 100, in white or black Chandler McWilliams uses language and sculpture to prompt viewers to consider how ethics is performed and negotiated in their daily lives. Practice (Constraint) is an editioned bag with a dashed cursive handwriting silkscreened, "Try Harder." The edition includes an embroidery kit, containing needle and thread, encouraging the viewer/wearer to hand-embroider the words as a way of meditating upon the ways that our ethics and actions materialize in the world. Chandler McWilliams is an artist, writer, and teacher living in Los Angeles. His practice extends from his philosophical interests and political and personal realities: negotiating ethics, materiality, parenthood, epistemology, domestic life, perception, and anxiety in equal measure. His work complicates the relationshi