Description

Cloth holds history and memory. It is both fragile and enduring. For several decades, I have cut cloth into lace-like filigree patterns, a method I liken to drawing with empty space and one that reveals the mark of a human hand. I have extended my practice to include how handwork and more current technologies inform each other, and how the intimacy of making can translate using new materials and methods. The central concept for all my projects is ‘the ethereal textile’. In both my architecturally sited works and studio pieces, I conjure sources such as lace, open work textiles, botanical imagery, and remnants of pattern and ornament. It is through constructing and deconstructing, that I seek to find a delicate and sensorial connection to textile. I coax out the physical tolerance and qualities in these actions to explore the material and the immaterial, and the voided space between light and shadow. Inherent to textile are its delicacy and fragility. I link patterning and material phenomena which speak to such qualities. Textile, as an object we interact with on a daily basis, seems most appropriate to convey these ideas. In this work, I elicit qualities of a most ephemeral nature. I look to quietly amplify textile’s physical and tenuous qualities.