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Drawing, Textile on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Size: 17 W x 15.8 H x 1.5 D in
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Thread drawing This textile drawing utilizes a sewing machine as a drawing tool to create an open network of a bonsai tree with its roots exposed. This approach reflects a contemporary melding of Midwestern regionalism by combining historical and modern textile practices. As a medium, the artist is inspired by lace due to its significance as a craft handed down generation to generation, usually woman to woman and that it can be kitschy or sensual. As a material, it consists of interconnecting threads and how those connections occur creates endless possibilities of pattern. In this way, the artist thinks of lace as a metaphor for the human condition. In this particular work, the artist has chosen to show the root structure of the tree to acknowledge that while trees are a highly visible, often towering part of every day life, half of its energy structure is hidden from view. This lace work series reflects on the tree in its balance of drawing life from the flowing, open, light-filled air as well as the dense stillness of darkness. To our eyes, one aspect is visible and the other hidden, yet both are equally necessary to sustain life. Actual dimensions are 12.75 x 13.75," 15.75 x 17 x 1.5" in black frame.
Original Created:2016
Subjects:Tree
Materials:Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Styles:Fine ArtFolkModernConceptual
Mediums:Textile
Drawing:Textile on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:17 W x 15.8 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:Black
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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My lace sculpture is an act in seeking balance, of repeatedly introducing contradiction and opposition to show that a harmonious equilibrium is possible. Combining the flowing, inherently feminine lace with hard, industrial man-made resin alters the inherent quality of each material. Each goes through a process of loss and gain. The result is a dimensional expression of politically-soiled notion of compromise. Here, balance creates porous solidity, frozen fluidity, a three-dimensional canvas. I consider my all my work to be works in lace, and in lace, I see more than kitsch doilies or superficial decoration. Lace represents countless individual threads intertwined to create interdependent networks with the nuance of connection shaping endless possibilities of pattern. As broad as this cultural metaphor might be, lace also represents the intimate and delicate, as well as the domestic and historic traditions in handcraft. I am influenced by the passing down of handcraft from one generation to another, while also striving to re-contextualize traditional craft. In my sculpture, this contextualization occurs primarily through the lens of science and mathematics. These influences can be reflected within bodies of work in ways that utilize the design principles of origami, invisibly physical forces such as gravity, or the way that a single simple curve can transmute a formless plane into mathematically complex geometry. My work has always been grounded in this nature of dichotomy and the oscillating exchange that occurs by combining dissimilar media and processes is an expression of the desire for and in search of balance in body, mind, and action.
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