material witness: Needles and Thread

I had my eye surgery yesterday and this morning I threaded a needle over white cloth with white thread in poor light! How wonderful is that!

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I am a textile artist living and working on Mayne Island on the West Coast of Canada.

I like using extreme methods while transforming cloth. That means ripping, tearing, burning, and rotting and using whatever method is needed to create eroded and complex surfaces.This includes using modern, traditional and ancient techniques to produce contemporary fabric art.

I also make sculpture, mixed media work, am a precision dyer and have worked for stage, film and television. Getting to teach workshops, sharing process and inspiration tickles my bones.

None of us would know how to sew on a button without sharing skills.

Things I Read

Art Cloth Jane Dunnewold
Art Forms from the Ocean (1862) Ernst Haeckel
Art Textiles of the World:Canada (2009) Telos Publishing
Colour and Design for Embroidery (2000) Richard Box
Complex Cloth Jane Dunnewold
Dyes and Paints Elin Noble
Eco Colour: Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles, India Flint
Eroticism and Art (2005) Alyce Mahon
hot textiles Inspiration and techniques with heat tools (2007) Kim Thittichai
Human , the Definative Visual Guide (2004) Smithsonian Institute Edited by Janet Mohun
Lilith's Brood (1989) Octavia E. Butler
Memory on Cloth Yoshiko Wada
Photographic Atlas of the Human Body (2004) Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE
Portfolio Collection - Vol. 40 (2007) Telos Art Publishing
Second Skin India Flint
Shibori Yoshiko Wada
Surfaces (1996) Judy Juracek
the art of embroidery inspirational stitches, texture and surfaces (2006) Fraincoise Tellier-Loumange
Wild Colour: How to Grow, Prepare and Use Natural Dye Plants Jenny Dean
Yayoi Kusama (2001) Phaidon Books

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Needles and Thread

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