Seams/Dreams:Collage Poems

In the Loft At Gallery 110

Drawings on magazine, mylar and paper, intaglio and relief prints, lace and sewing materials, nature in its natural state as plant materials are sewn, pinned, clipped together. Originally, I pinned the paper just as one does to sew a dress but found that the pins became permanent elements in the collages.

To sew: 1.to join or fasten with stitches made with needle and thread.2. to make , mend enclose by such means.

Sewing the paper is very meditative for me and is a return to a youthful, state of concentration that is different from the action –oriented concentration of painting. As a child I could get lost in time, sewing delicate, tiny doll clothes or sit in a field for hours making daisy chains or creating objects out of wire and cloth, a return to “no time”. These collage poems also use the thread and wire to pierce the paper, creating a rough repair or primitive joining of seemingly random elements.

Counterpoints:

past/present

bare bodies/ garments of past longing

nature/technology

hand/machine

anthroponomy/blinders

innocence/experience

couture/culture

Encaustic is the protective layer or skin, adds texture, a beautiful smell and also creates a translucent layer that we must look through to see the image or the truth.

Seams/Dreams are a metaphor for our lives pieced together from experience, our history, repairing a war torn nation or a too warm carbon dioxide filled world with our own individual threads, if enough of us sew the world back together it can become whole again.