{"id":2201,"date":"2012-11-15T18:30:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T23:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2012-11-15T18:30:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T23:30:21","slug":"making-and-unmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/?p=2201","title":{"rendered":"Making and Unmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple artists using fabric and sewing:<\/p>\n

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For some straight up lovely embroidery: Allison Watkins<\/a>. Love the slight irony of embroidering images of fabric onto fabric, as well as just the aesthetics of this (thin, tenuous linework, etc.)<\/p>\n

A slightly more process based artist using fabric: Ilysia Van Deren<\/a><\/p>\n

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She did a whole series of these handkerchiefs<\/a>. Her statement is as follows:<\/p>\n

How-To\u00a0documents the process of ripping and re-sewing vintage handkerchiefs by hand, sometimes repeatedly. The projected video exposes a neurotic, obsessive process that is simultaneously mesmerizing and unsettling. The process acts as a means of releasing internalized experiences and frustrations, making the modification of each piece of fabric a uniquely personal and cathartic act. The hyper-detailed scanned images act as a document of the destruction; each fiber, tear and sloppy stitch on display for examination. Forever altered, these objects take on new identities. The act of repair becomes an integral part of a continuous cycle of destruction and reconstruction, of tearing down and building up.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Super into how process based this is, and the idea of destruction as construction (currently a Very Relevant Theme in my work)<\/p>\n

There is also a video piece that goes with it:
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