TIME is not a Line
I started this piece a year ago, picking it up now and again. The small squares were created first The small squares are of eco dyed silk, indigo on cotton, indigo on blockout curtain materials and a very old hardanger which was an embroidery I began in my teens. That is a long time to hold onto cloth. My mother and father used to visit their friends and play cards while my sister and i would read or listen to the radio. More often than not I would take some embroidery to do. Now it is woven into a whole of newer memories. It sat like this, in this format a very long time because, as happens more often than not, I didnt know what to do next. On one of the many creek walks i take from the studio to the bridge in our front yard the idea came to me as i was musing on the sun reflecting on the water. And so the stitching began - my way of working is mostly intuitive and in this case, apart from drawing the circle on the back, The stitches are...
