This artist focuses her work on media that are becoming
obsolete, such as newspapers, slides, etc. The following is her artist statement about one particular
interesting series of works on newspaper. [taken from artist website]:
“As news-gathering departs from paper form and is conveyed
instead through the television and internet, the newspaper becomes a nostalgic
and old-fashioned object. I describe the
beauty of the ritual experience of newspaper-reading by describing the paper as
a tactile and fragile object in the language of craft. The pieces in this series are entire issues
of The New York Times encased in hand-embroidered cotton muslin. I select a photograph from the paper; usually
a strong image suggestive of power, leadership or communication; and embroider
the image onto the fabric, applying colors in a painterly way and layering line
and thread. Portions of the image remain
as outline and threads tangle and unravel from the fabric”.
