Bailey cave and katie davis

To the Chicago-based artist Nick Cave, modern-day talk of “resource scarcity” is downright false. In his view, our world is actually one of overwhelming abundance, teeming with objects and materials that are just waiting to be reclaimed and utilized. “All of my resources lie outside of my studio,” he says on this episode of Time Sensitive. “They’re just out in the world for me to gather and pull together.” This outlook was sown early on, during his upbringing in Fulton, Missouri, as part of a large family of makers, including a master quilt-maker grandmother, carpenter and furniture-maker grandfathers, and six seamstress aunts. The second-eldest of seven brothers, Cave was no stranger to hand-me-downs. Rather than accept them as-is, however, he would deconstruct and reconstruct the garments in ways that made them feel new, and also something entirely his own.

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