Between 2000 and 2003, I periodically turned my kitchen into a felting studio to produce seamless felt mittens, which I began to custom make for friends. The pairs were eventually borrowed back for exhibition and both feltmaking and felt mittens became an integral part of my project "Sponge," 2006–2016.
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Curator Judith Hoos Fox writing in "Clothing Communicates", her catalog essay for the 2005 Tufts University Art Gallery exhibition "Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator":
Hope Ginsburg, entranced with the process of making felt, has created custom mittens for her friends and their kids. Through a collection of these synecdoches, she depicts an enclave of unique individuals creating a society.