‘Textile threads ….’ (2011 - 2013)

I have developed a method of producing wall-hung artwork by layering different drawing supports, and making images onto them with a combination of stitching with yarn and mark-making with paint. This layering process seemed particularly interesting because it visualised how a multiplicity of themes and topics might become connected. The layering suggested - on the one hand - simultaneity and, on the other, a hiding and revealing of material information as we might know it from historical and archaeological contexts.
Each picture consists of a hand-stitched drawing made with yarn onto transparent fabric and then suspending and fixing this fabric layer on top of a painting on canvas. This making process brought to the fore two particular aspects of image production: firstly, stitching a path correlates to shaping a narrative as it happens; it also reminds of going for a walk within a visual landscape. And secondly, the stitched picture and its many straight vertical and horizontal lines resembles a linear edifice not unlike an architectural construction that gets erected, as the image emerges. For both these reasons, many of the artworks I made in this vein of working, showed architectural themes.
I also developed two further variations of this method: I added an additional image layer to the pictures in the form of laser-cut stainless steel shapes that rest on top of the finished and framed artwork. And, as a different kind of variation, I stitched images onto three-dimensional fabric sculptures, that were suspended from a ceiling, thus allowing viewers to walk in and around them.