My artwork plays with the comforting persona of knitting and its association with nurture, babies and nice old ladies, by sculpting it into monstrous alien forms derived from internal organs and parasites. Treated as anthropomorphic creatures, the pieces are composed from a range of womb‑like vessels, intestinal structures and transposed body parts. The work explores animation, re-birth and metamorphosis, and takes inspiration from science fiction films such as Alien (1979), The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and Tremors (1990), while also drawing upon the mother and trickster archetypes found within the collective unconscious (Jung, Four Archetypes, 1953).  Combining tactile seduction with leaching visceral discharges and intestinal extrusions, the work explores abjection by blurring the boundary between the inner and outer body (Kristeva, Powers of Horror, 1980). The sculptures aim to recreate the sensation of touch through the viewer’s tactile imagination (Svankmajer, Touching and Imagining, 2014), while also provoking the disgust mechanism, a learned reaction of repulsion to something harmful, contaminating or socially taboo (Miller, The Anatomy of Disgust, 1997).