I am hoping to allude
to the following with my work:
~The question of completeness – How and when is something declared
finished? If something looks unfinished can it still be “done”?
~Right side vs. wrong side – What happens when the wrong is presented
as right? When what is normally hidden is revealed?
~The differences between hand made and machine made – How culturally
the positions of their desirability have flip flopped. How hand-made feeds
into the ideas of work ethic/time spent/work never done.
~Craft as art – Are the two compatible? Linked? Interchangeable?
~Dichotomies and pairing opposites –A masculine metal toy miniaturized
on quilting, a simultaneously creepy and lyrical portrait of a young girl,
a grandmotherly blanket made of wire that actually speaks in my grandmother’s
voice
I think it is quite possible to see the work in my MFA show as a series of drawings. These are drawings that use thread and wire instead of charcoal and ink, satin, quilting, and the wall instead of paper and canvas. These drawings have seemingly found a place between 2-D and 3-D, shown on the wall, and yet concurrently existing and yearning to be off of it. In this tenuous position these pieces are, in many senses of the phrase, “between states.”
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