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A perpetual quest for home is at the heart of the objects I create. My stitched buildings on household window screens reference… |
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perpetual quest for home is at the heart of the objects I create. My
stitched buildings on household window screens reference both
architecture and women’s stitching work and question what emotional
life lies behind the façade of a dwelling.I
draw from varied sources such as: architectural magazines, buildings
plucked from paintings by Hopper and Vermeer, a Nazi propaganda
postcard of a fake concentration camp building, with the caption “Our
New Quarters,” and internet images of Frank Lloyd Wright’s modernist
icon, Fallingwater.My
drawings are stitched with thread onto paper. Overheard pronouncements
on trains or cell phone conversations or statements spoken in my own
private encounters are recorded to be sewn into thread drawings. I
think of this process as “capturing” words and ordinary, yet profound
emotions.My
process of stitching the window screen pieces and the stitching on
paper drawings is informed by the historical use of thread in pictorial
record-keeping and learning.
