Folded White Towels

Make me think about …

  • a pile of sleeping white cats
  • a stack of milk biscuits
  • baby bundles in a maternity ward
  • business envelopes waiting to post
  • watermarked writing paper in a desk drawer
  • stamps, ready to go.
  • stores of hotel and spa resource
  • Aunty May’s linen cupboard.
  • anti-bacterial wipes, anti-viral wipes
  • labels and tags on household linens
  • care instructions
  • slabs of marble brick
  • gravestones
  • swimming pools
  • body trace
  • trace of bodies
  • leaky bodies, contagion,
  • I check that I’m all tucked in.
  • laundry
  • washing powder
  • softness
  • fibres, skin
  • wrapping, nurturing, mothering — safe
  • Nana’s wringer washing machine
  • housework, work of the house
  • repetition
  • gathering, washing, folding
  • gathering, washing, folding — woman-as-washing machine.