Cloth Work
I started writing on cloth in 2012. I wanted to use words in my art in a different way and to create something less formal than a drawing. I buy and collect doilies and handkerchiefs I find in antique shops and at yard sales.
For the most part I write excerpts from my personal diaries, but two of my pieces, Aunt Tilly and Whatever, Whomever, are words my mother said and wrote in her notebook.
I find stitching to be more social than drawing. I can stitch when I sit with my husband while we watch television. Though it seems an old fashioned activity, the words I write with thread are a little edgy. I find I like this tension between what appears to be sweet and traditional, while the actual feelings behind the text tell a contemporary and less benign story.