I feel privileged to find myself captivated by two ageless mediums: silk filament woven into cloth and the raw stuff of the earth, decomposed rock. When I work with clay, a dense medium into which no light penetrates, I feel connected to it’s world: sturdy, timeless, quiet. I marvel at the process and feel of this medium that moves fluidly thru my hands, and which can be coaxed into endless possible forms. Sheer fabric promises that light is a part of the art, while warp and weft offer a rigidity that clay does not! Working with light-suffused silk organza or stitching clay mono-print with invisible thread is part of the binding that helps explain my drive: the nuances of transparency have become a vehicle of expression for me.
Joan Diamond: It Helps Sometimes To Take the Long View
Shape resist dyeing, aka Shibori, is a visual memory of the folds, resists, and pressures put to cloth. Like dye in Shibori, time is the force in nature that records the process of change. The movement of tectonic plates over millions of years produces mountains and ridges. Time will also record plastics’ exponential compounding presence globally upon this earth.
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