Gallery II | The mark of a single stitch repeated thousands of times creates its own open field. Pattern and pattern variation animate the surface.
People often ask about my “remarkable patience.” I do not have patience, I have grit. The only way to see my ideas is to make them. There are, by now, predictable stages of work — imagination, anticipation, frustration, doubting, denial, ripping out, restarting, tedium, and finally, often after months, a burst of energy near the end when I start to believe in what I am seeing.
GALLERY II
Soliloquy II | 2015 | 24”x36” | hand stitched, hand dyed on layered silk
Detail | Soliloquy II
Hiraeth | 2014 | 36”x54” | hand stitched, multiple layers of hand dyed silk over linen ∞
Detail | Hiraeth
Saudade | 2014 | 36”x54” | hand stitched, multiple layers of hand dyed silk over linen
Fernweh | 2015 | 36”x54 | hand stitched, multiple layers of hand dyed silk over linen ∞
Detail | Fernweh
Soliloquy I | 2013 | 40”x40” | hand stitched, hand dyed silk collage
Detail | Soliloquy I
Tares | 2013 | 40”x12” | hand stitched, hand dyed silk and linen collage
Detail | Tares
Universe: Unfinished Work | 2013 | 20”x6”| Hand stitched on oil monoprinted silk and linen
Detail | Universe: Unfinished Work
The Long Way | 2013 | 24”x24” | Hand stitched on hand dyed silk collage
The Work of the Moon | 2013 | 24”x24” | Hand stitched on hand dyed silk collage
∞ available work, contact me for prices
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