Jessie Karabesinis

3 BILLION BURNT, 2023

timber, metal, wool, foam, bamboo, cotton

‘3 BILLION BURNT’ draws attention to the media’s lack of coverage in regard to the 3 billion animals affected by the 2020 Australian bushfires. Through sustainable materials and contrasting techniques, the project explores ideas of loss, destruction, and how humans lack a sense of cross-species empathy. The burnt timber physically represents the destruction, each knot of the shag cushion represents the billions of animals affected by the fires and the textile woven screens metaphorically represent a cage and the sense of being trapped by the fire.

Jessica Karabesinis is a Sydney based designer-maker specialising in object and textile design with a passion for multi-sensory design that evokes emotion from her users. She enjoys working with different materials and is particularly drawn to tactile design. She strives to create design pieces that are timeless, quality, durable and aims to improve all aspects of well-being whilst being sustainable. Jessica finds power in design and the experiences it creates, this drives her with every work she designs as she seeks to achieve a design that will impact each individual in a unique way.