Preparing for AFTER:On net, MESH and gossamer things

AFTER: Y Gallery Woodbrook - Interpreting a poem by Derek Walcott

cutting out net - - - DOUBLING and TRIPLING - - -

the soft, delicate fabric THAT - - - I then sometimes - - - EMBROIDER to add - - -

to the DrEAmScApE- - - of MEMORY -

- - of something beyond OUR vision - -

- a blurry Half SPACE - - - - one - -

stitch - - - - - at - - a - - - -time——

I fight with work like this, because although I expect the viewer to be observing my vision and I am achieving the idea, my work is really about something much more than that—— - - - -——

— —— ——- - - - ——— - - - —-

—- —- Presented here - - I show how I get — caught up in wanting to —-express - - - - —— -something—— - specific- —-

Using diaphanous materials the light and shadow is the appeal—- - - I could just as easily transfer out the shapes of people for torn and shredded scraps instead —- —- ——

— — - there is a beautiful connection - —- a language —- - - that is - - made—— from - —- juxtapositioning —- elements - —- -

—— - - obscuring - —— forms where you wonder what you are looking at - —— -/—- a bit of squinting- —— —— why not? - ——————-

—— - —-not quite—————

ordinarily seen as —— - MUDDY- -

l o o k —— —— / - -

———- - - - —- - —- —— a hint — - -

— THREAD- —- no different - - than - any —-/ other - ————- - - —— media- —- —- — ——- —

search - ——— - out - —— the - ——- ———— silhouette- ——— - - —- - ————- — - —— - - - ——- this piece is titled MEMENTO MORI and instead of showing the gallery space and the way the work looked I decided to share the process instead- —— - —- -/- because the making of it was the very best part.

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