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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, my 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 take shape under my
hands—but not entirely under my control—depicting people
in circumstances I could never have imagined, but recognizably of
this world. Characters come alive and tell me their names: Space
Witch, Big
Rose, Little Big-Head, The
Sea Fairy, Birdgirl, and others. |
My Racing Heart (detail), fabric, thread, lace,
silk-screen-ink, acrylic paint, fusable adhesive |
All images ©2002-2005
by China Marks, all rights reserved. |
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