Louella Michael is a Meanjin (Brisbane) based artist working primarily with interactive and kinetic sculpture. Michael works at the intersection between craft, art and technology, exploring how the virtual has fractured and reframed our understanding and interactions with space, self and community. In an attempt to understand the alienating fast-paced hyper-connection of today, Michael intentionally over-invests time and labour in highly saturated digital forms to connect more deeply with that which often passes us by. In Recent projects Michael has drawn on craft and textile associations of care and community, her processes emphasise slowness and physical presence, resituating and grounding the importance of connection offline. Tensions between slow and fast in process and material are stretched further in her installation choices that sterilise and constrain the softness of textile forms.