Rachel Ferber
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The Pillow Series explores the form of the decorative throw pillow as both a tool and a symbol. Through material signifiers like butter explosions and body doubles, the pillows allude to past and potential actions. Their ongoing accumulation becomes an act of stockpiling—weapons, resources, ideas—as well as critiquing excess and notions of value .

Found fabrics, and those I’ve dyed with scrap or waste materials, are used to create the base of each pillowcase. Some pillows began as props, others as replicas or stand-ins.

Throw Pillow (Butter Explosion A), 2020 — cotton muslin dyed with fallen mulberries reclaimed from the sidewalk, salted butter Throw Pillow (Butter Explosion B), 2020 — cotton muslin dyed with fallen mulberries reclaimed from the sidewalk, salted butter Throw Pillow (Butterrr Flowers), 2020 — cotton muslin dyed with fallen mulberries reclaimed from the sidewalk, acrylic paint Pillow Pair (Quickie®), 2021 — Original© Quickie® Super Absorbent Towels Throw Pillow (Spinach Chia Grid), 2021 — cotton muslin dyed with fallen mulberries reclaimed from the sidewalk (color-shifted), spinach, organic chia seeds Throw Pillow (Spinach Chia Grid Body Double), 2021 — cotton muslin dyed with fallen mulberries reclaimed from the sidewalk (color-shifted), spinach, organic chia seeds, acrylic paint Throw Pillow (Peanut Spinach Abstraction), 2021 — found bedsheets, found fabric, spinach, organic chia seeds, tea tree oil, organic peanut powder, acrylic medium Restrained Pillow (A), 2022 — vintage fabric, found rubber bands Restrained Pillow (Freed), 2022 — vintage fabric, found rubber bands