Chrysalis

CHRY-SAIL-IS (2026) is a vessel built for Hello Wood’s Cabin Fever 2026 summer festival, as one of four selected projects from their international open call. Chry-sail-is, a play on 'Chrysalis', explores the relationship between scaffolding and form, creating a cocoon which suspends decommissioned sailboat sails - shipped from San Francisco, CA and fabricated in Bethel, NY - from an ordered and stationary timber scaffolding system. The canvas breathes, shifts, and holds constant tension between permanence and change, flowing in the wind, on land rather than at sea. The installation features 6 wooden frames with sailboat canvas stretched between and above them to make five bays. The user is invited to experience the structure - walk through it, sit inside it underneath some shade, look out through apertures from remnants of the sail’s windows, look up through the oculus, and peek between various slits between the two materials. Rooted in a site shaped by industrial textile production and wartime aviation, the project weaves together histories of making and movement, allowing discarded materials to carry old stories into new forms.