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Since 2002, I have used an industrial zig-zag sewing machine to draw with thread on fabric.
I call what I make "sewn drawings." Because I begin each drawing with a new assortment of commercially printed cloth fragments and another patterned fabric as a ground, drawings can look very different, one from another. Over days and weeks, as I stitch into the scraps of fabric and the patterned ground, doing and re-doing, drawings—and now sewn books as well—take shape under my hands, but not entirely under my control—artifacts of the process.
My Racing Heart (detail), fabric, thread, lace,
silk-screen-ink, acrylic paint, fusable adhesive
All images ©2002-2009 by China Marks, all rights reserved.