Today Is Our Day Off is conceived as an outdoor textile installation presented as a laundry line. The laundry line, a common domestic object used for drying clothes, is imagined as occupying a liminal space that oscillates between the public and private. The work was inspired by the washing lines glimpsed outside migrant workers' homes, often the only evidence of the existence of these workers.

The work also speaks to the demands of household work and the tensions and inequalities it generates on top of all of life's numerous demands. The repetitive acts of washing, folding, and hanging are mirrored through layered patchwork textiles, evoking cycles of endurance and respite. The patterns of leaves that are sewn atop the textiles - meant to resemble leaves blowing in the breeze past these outdoor laundry lines - have been cut, assembled, and sewn on by hand, in an additional layer of labour by the artist.

Text by Ellen Lee