A Passage from my opening address at the Fibreworks exhibition, Contexturise at the Faculty of Art and Design Gallery - 16 May 2012:
Let
me speak here only of impressions, trend, mark and meaning.
Submerged
kimonos and an Ukeo-E geisha embroidery.
A
kimono become designer labels −
A
work that seamlessly joins in terms unresolved,
The
implacable relationship of the material East to the West.
Postages,
love letters, and some travel implied.
Harbingers
of the indexical time of making. As if
A
shared past belonging to both maker and viewer;
But
invariably unique.
Engorged
and engorging textured fabrics,
Knitted,
crocheted, embroidered, quilted, felted – felt.
A
textile carnival and lent – flesh and bone,
Guts
and entrails. Cones and squares,
Small,
smaller, smallest, the chirosophy of hand and machine.
These
cyborg hatchlings.
The
‘carte de tendre’ revisited here –
Rivers
of thread and cartographic appliqué, still reliquary forms Hanging mantles of
metaphor, mark and meaning.
Further,
deconstructed dress. Cut apart
And
patterned on the present – yellow numbers seem important
Somehow.
Silken
thread, cocoons and insect life
Seen
and ripped from the invisible
Economy
of farming and production.
Animal
presence in medium and made of medium,
Cloaking
the human, wearing the body
Removed.
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