THREAD paintings , FELT WORKS And KNITLANDS 2016-ONGOING
In Thread Paintings, I upcycle various found domestic fabric, such as old dinner napkins, chemin de table and handkerchiefs, and start to give them a new life as by using them first as painting rags. I then let the impromptu organic shapes of paint daubs and stains on the fabric guide my embroidery process, as I overlay and do free-flowing tracings of the geometry of various settings encountered. These depictions are inspired by geographic boundaries, the state of transits, vastness of landscapes, aerial views, shifting perspectives, and the interior and exterior architectural elements such as archways, windows of museums, restaurants, galleries, coffee shops, concert halls and theaters. Stitching has the cleaving and binding quality that helps me handle and maintain the gestural, paint-smeared areas as well as the traced imagery of places both in a controlled and arbitrary way. These processes allow me to delve into the nature of line and reflect upon the structural qualities of gestural techniques. Similar to the process of mental mapping, this merging of juxtapositions with medium creates a hybrid spatial experience that grants me new abstract possibilities stripped of any preconceived identity.
Windmills of your mind 2020, 19 1/4" x 19 1/4"
Where to begin 2020, 12" x 12"
If you leave 2020, 17 1/2" x 17 1/4"
Off to see the world 2020, 16 1/2" x 18"
Radiate again and again 2020, 18" x 16 1/2"
There is thunder in our hearts 2020, 18" x 18 1/2"
Not a solitary thing I feel 2019, 16 3/4" x 19 1/4"
Exit to enter 2019, 18" x 18 1/2"
Broken bridges 2018, 16" x 16"
You will find your way 2018, 16 1/2" x 18 1/2"
Grid game 2018, 11" x 11 1/4"
Secret geometry of space 2018, 11 1/4" x 10 1/4"
A bit on the edge, I surrender 2017, 11" x 11 1/4"
I ache again but I am so over it 2017, 18" x 17 1/2"
Nothing belongs to me diptych, 2017, 15" x 18 1/2"
Wandering with a broken heart 2016, 15 1/2" x 16 1/2"
Shelter me not 2017, 15 3/4" x 16"
Wherever I go you will follow me 2016, 16" x 16"
Perhaps we are trapped in this violet 2017, 17 1/2" x 18"
Against the present tense 2017, 16 1/4" x 15 1/2"
Isolation dream 2020, 11 7/8" x 9 1/8"
Before after 2020, 9 3/8" x 5 6/8"
Melt 2020, 11 6/8" x 9"
Night Sky 2020, 9 3/8" x 5 6/8"
Reflection 2020, 12" x 9"
Purple eclipse 2020, 9 1/8 x 6"
In the garden 2020, 11 5\8" x 9 1/8"
Crossing 2020, 16 1/4" x 15 1/2"
Gone soon 2020, 12 x 8 7/8"
Heart to heart, often than not 2020, 11 7/8" x 8 ½"
Cruising on turquoise territories_ Knitlands painted paper cutout on knitting, 2018, 14 1/2" x 13"
Certain distances will embrace you_ Knitlands painted paper cutout on knitting, 2018, 10" x 13"
The land craves for cotton candy_ Knitlands painted paper cutout on knitting, 2018, 11" x 11"
Feels like an excavation_ Knitlands painted paper cutout on knitting, 2018, 11" x 16"
On the blurs of marigold fields_ Knitlands painted paper cutout on knitting, 2018, 15" x 16"