I produce my work slowly over a long period of time, allowing it to change along the way. 
I am really interested in making as a way to express how I feel and think.
So much is embedded. Time, for one thing.
Touch, for another.
The marks are each unique, individual, sometimes close together, sometimes not.
Like ripples on the lake retreating towards my friend, the horizon line. I'm interested in producing something very very simple
and quiet
and marked repeatedly with the human hand.
Not because it's a metaphor for anything, but just because it's an object that says, unequivocally, I was here. I made this.
I spent time with this.
Feel my touch.
Remember me, my darling.
Gorgeous work!
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ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous what you have made. I feel like I really do want to "touch" it!!
Love the French knots as well!!
Hugs,
Susan
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Cloth and stitching is so personal...we all use the same basic components, cloth and thread, but each persons work is so different, telling a little about themselves, about their world.
ReplyDeleteYour cloths tell a beautiful story.
I was in Tasmania last year and visited an exhibition of an emerging aboriginal artist...her work was amazing. Lots of beautiful greens, such a contrast to the aboriginal art from the Northern Territory, the Red Centre as they call it. All very earthy reds, browns, black ... two very different environments portrayed so beautifully in their paintings.
Jacky xox
sigh....
ReplyDelete'allowing it to change along the way'
ReplyDeleteis the line that struck me most.
Exactly!
ReplyDelete*you* are the horizon line for a lot of us
ReplyDelete"I'm interested in producing something very very simple
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and marked repeatedly with the human hand. "
absolutely, and what you produce is beautiful - you shine through.
a layered (stitched) reflection and explantation. if only more artists' statements were like this, simple, reaal, profound.
ReplyDeleteSo thought provoking, Judy. It is only as I have gotten older that I realize I want to leave my mark behind for those who love me.
ReplyDeleteJust beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI can't say it better than Velma. Your words so often strike me as profound, and you have such a way of layering words and pictures. My hair stood on end.
ReplyDeleteI love that bottom red piece, wonderful post.
ReplyDeleteSublime read Judy. Thankyou very much. Gilly
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful meditative work
ReplyDeleteI must say that what you have written has touched me in a way that I did not expect this morning when I clicked your icon. So eloquently you describe the reason to do anything, at all.
ReplyDeleteYour work is worth seeing and the words are worth reading.
Thank you for the inspiration.
Yes, precisely. It's why I call some of my work my LegaSee Cloths. And it's why I've spent years taking photos of all the quilts my grandmother made. Why I am on the verge of creating a catalogue of her quilts.
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