These clots of brightly coloured fabric offer an amiable appearance, however, on closer inspection, the open mouth of Dead Weight, a new textile sculpture, reveals that it’s composed of hundreds if not thousands of men’s neckties. Relics from the days when they were a symbol of power, a Don Draper-esque indicator of social status, Goodman collected the now-discarded ties she used for this work from thrift store bargain bins.

Like an overripe fruit, Dead Weight splits at the seams, rendered bloated and obsolete. Gone are the days when wearing a necktie to work was a dress code requirement. Gone too are the days when being dressed was a requirement for work, now that the pandemic has forced many of us to work from home. While office buildings sit empty, this artefact of the modern workplace succumbs to its own weight, swelling and softening like a body, surrounded by images of bodies in their own homes – vulnerable, defenceless, uninhibited, powerful.