11/4/11

Amanda McCavour

I saw something amazing today, found via Bookhou (one of my favorite morning reads), work by Amanda McCavour. I was even more impressed when I read her Artist Statement and realized she only use thread and a sewing machine!

In my work, I use a sewing machine to create thread drawings and installations by sewing into a fabric that dissolves in water. This fabric makes it possible for me to build up the thread by sewing repeatedly into my drawn images so that when the fabric is dissolved, the image can hold together without a base. These thread images appear as though they would be easily unraveled and seemingly on the verge of falling apart, despite the works actual raveled strength.
I am interested in the vulnerability of thread, its ability to unravel, and its strength when it is sewn together. I am interested in the connections between process and materials and the way that they relate to images and spaces. Tracing actions and environments through a process of repetition, translation and dissolving, I hope to trace absence. My work is a process of making as a way of tracing and preserving things that are gone, or slowly falling apart.


4 comments:

arounna said...

so glad you like her work
the amount of time involved in each of her pieces is crazy.

angela said...

I'm sure it takes a lot of time and patience. But they are SO beautiful!

Paulsqob said...

so glad you like her work the amount of time involved in each of her pieces is crazy.

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I am interested in the vulnerability of thread, its ability to unravel, and its strength when it is sewn together. I am interested in the connections between process and materials and the way that they relate to images and spaces. Tracing actions and environments through a process of repetition, translation and dissolving, I hope to trace absence. My work is a process of making as a way of tracing and preserving things that are gone, or slowly falling apart.
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