Forest of Here: Jeila Gueramian at Fuller Craft Museum

The story

Jeila Gueramian built her artistic process out of theater costumes, film props, and unwanted afghans salvaged from flea markets. Rather than treating vintage knits and handmade blankets as relics to keep behind glass, the Brooklyn-based artist cuts, restitches, and stacks them into dense, walk-through environments. At the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Forest of Here transforms a gallery into a room-scale thicket of salvaged textiles, found objects, motorized kinetic parts, light, and hidden sound.

What makes Gueramian’s work unsettling isn't just the sheer volume of upcycled yarn—it's the friction between handcraft and machinery. The artist calls the installation a 'symphony of materials,' purposefully blurring organic, beast-like forms with mechanical elements that sway, hum, or click as you pass. Crucially, you don't view this from behind a velvet rope; the museum's own curatorial invitation explicitly tells you to step directly into the room and examine the textures up close rather than staring from a doorway.