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A diptych…sort of like a collage but the two individual parts are separated. These pieces are part of a new direction where I am mounting the textiles onto a gallery depth canvas with heavy gel. The larger piece is 20×20 inches and the smaller 10×20 inches. The textile comes very close to the edge of the black canvas. These two pieces can be hung in a variety of configurations, even horizontally.
The textile pieces were created by layering opaque fabrics, printed photo images, stamped letters and sheer fabrics together…then by sewing patterns over the whole ‘sandwich’. I added more stamped letters onto the top layer and then distressed the piece by melting through some of the layers, adding more layers and more distressing.
This method using sheer fabrics gives the same effect as glazing with paints over an image to blend colours, allowing some to show through and others to fade away.
The theme is SMS language or texting language. My kids are much more adept at translating this new dialect than I am. There’s lots of commentary to be found about the impact of SMS in schools etc. What will happen to spelling…literature? It would certainly be a challenge trying to play Scrabble using SMS.
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