44” by 32”

2018.

Hand woven linen, hand-spun paper. Dyed with indigo and turmeric. Printed with black beans, rusty objects. Patchwork and Boro stitched. Backed with muslin.

Included in the juried exhibit “Below, Above, Through and Beyond the Datum Level. Curator comments about this piece:

“The narrative of memory, loss, lived experiences and passages lies within the cells of this work. The way the eye is led to read the work is well thought out and the patterning seductively repetitive but then it is not…so much like the operation of our recall. The palette works with popular notions of embedded information - nostalgic. The subtlety of the lettering in conjunction with the outreached hands is hopeful, gentle, supportive in counterpoint to the rusted symbols of the pins and hooks.The pathways of the stitch work enhance the feeling of the organic, soluble nature of memory.”