COMMON THREADS
ARTIST STATEMENT
These life-size monotypes are a part of a quest to distill the essence of being human. Simple pressure prints of dresses are overlaid with embroidered contour drawings of female bodies. Each dress has stories and memories attached to it, held within it. These impressions are reaching for the familiar recollections absorbed into loved garments of myself and friends.
ARTIST STATEMENT CONTINUED…
The stitched figures are a salute to Feminist artist icons who used their body as material for their artwork. As a photographer and visual artist, I am attracted to the photographic X-Ray quality of the imprints and the interplay of multiple perspectives, games between the ghost print and the contour stitching of the figure. Since the advent of digital photography, I have been compelled to work in slow tactile physical mediums concerned with figuration, juxtaposing representational and abstracted forms and ideas.
Each project I undertake embraces imperfection and surprise retaining evidence of the hand.
The works produced in this series hold a conversation, with the objectives being to slow down, preserve and celebrate human touch, materiality, physical realities and the memories embedded in each garment.