STITCHED: Collage Work

The variation between fabrics, threads and textures made for an infinite palette. She began to incorporate old monoprints, old clothes, maps, ticket stubs, anything she had saved over the years for memories. Because of the personal elements within the work, each piece could then be interpreted biographically as places that she had visited or as references to home, family and mythology. The play between design, pattern, collage and color is key to this work.

By sewing, weaving and blending the materials and images, a story is often told, to be unraveled in each viewer’s participation. There is a reflection of what is shared in the world, of a unity between culture and nationality.