meaning to stitch 13 - a shift on the christening gown
a recent call for work for an exhibition brought a lightbulb moment: the exhibition is titled Under the Surface - it made me realise that i have been looking for ways to add further elements on top of what i have been doing, when a more appropriate way forward would be to add it underneath and partially reveal it, maybe like this:
the theme of the piece concerns a family's hidden history and the effect this may have had on successive generations - in part it represents the suppression of facts and events and creating a facade
so it makes sense to me that what was under the surface for several generations should now be on top, as the first layer of what develops as a result
at the moment i feel that the underlying layer should be black ..........? sharing this development in an online maker membership session generated some ideas on this, my favourite option being to use different weights and textures of fabric to represent different aspects
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I have read back over your previous posts and it is fascinating to see the development of this work. It strikes me that some of your other pieces, particularly the ones where you used organza to hide and reveal the stitching underneath could be a technique that could be employed in this work.