| In my series of mixed media paintings of women, I use sewing pattern templates as the underlying support. This creates an organic tension between the inanimate structural lines of clothing patterns and the figurative painted surfaces. I paint the surface with multiple layers of acrylic, some parts transparent and some parts opaque. The placement of the original clothing patterns against the painted forms creates an interdependence on the space, defining the picture plane. Throughout the surface, original sewing instructions remain visible, providing a contradiction and tension between the printed instructions and the visual image. This creates a literal transformation, where a sewing pattern for a sleeve becomes a leg, which becomes a torso, or any other metamorphosis within the image. |
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