Fibril Landscape

Displayed as 6 fibre-based landscape images, each piece began as an original photograph that was translated onto fabric using a sewing machine to layer lines and colours in thread to create a re-representation of the original photograph. Each work intertwines industrial, urban imagery and digital photographic process and their collective association with speed together with handmade slowness of the final process. I have taken the stitched images to a photographic scale of 16x20, rather then the typically small embroidery scale with its reference to the preciousness of the miniature object.

By merging lens-based perception and fibre art in reflecting on urban space I want to invite viewers across barriers. I want them to consider the presence and the absence of the tactile in their experience of the environment, and of art. I hope they will question their drift toward the optical in both settings. I hope that viewers will put their hands on these works, or at least have the desire to do so..