Let’s talk Leisure Unthreaded.
Welcome to my attempt to introduce you to more or less a live journal of sorts. Pulling back from here is how to purchase my work (which you can still find in my newsletters) to more so here is how to understand my work. I’d love if this became an interactive thing. Where you’d ask questions, leave comments, and get familiar with the pieces. So let’s get rolling.
This collection, Leisure Unthreaded, began when I was attempting to “de-stress” or “take it easy”… aka be more leisurely. Which oddly enough isn’t really in my vocabulary. The pressure of trying to move slowly almost makes it harder to do so. I started thinking about my work from the lens of its foundation. The grid format. The quadrant play. The textile strip. The frayed edges. The layering of it. How it felt like weaving. Almost quilting. The building of boxes. The box we all often feel we are put in. If that even truly defines us. What it means to be feminine. To hold court yet still be inviting and warm. That ability to be both.
So all in all this collection seeks to unravel the rigid lines of the societal box and literal grid of a canvas.. to break free and mold something original.
Let me know if that doesn’t make sense.
In preparation for NYC next week.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email me or leave a comment.
I will need things to do in the airport :)
xLDJ
Truly love your thoughts about being in a box. I have always felt this to be true, but now that I'm a mother, it's ever more so. There is so much should do this, have to teach that, but don't coddle, etc.