Juliet uses freehand machine embroidery to create textile based mixed media artworks that explore themes relating to the female body, identity and experience. She uses a process based approach, manipulating the narrative potential of her materials to explore feminist ideas and concepts. In this artwork, depicting a woman gathering scapulae (shoulder blades) and feathers, Juliet is playing with the concept of “standing on the shoulders of giants’ to examine an alternate perspective to history’s relationship to the present in which ‘gathering’ and ‘holding lightly’ become important. Focusing on moments of transition, she explores the interwoven contexts and forces at play in the production of female identity including our relationship to domesticity; cultural roots; medical knowledge/practices; and the natural world.