Evanston Art Center, Shape of Now July 2018
Monoprints, are created from the tabletop discards from my dressmaking practice. Call it a round-up of the remains. This is a form of drawing as by-product of the design process, rather than a precursor. It is a form of journaling that takes place alongside my dressmaking process. Sewing involves many sequences of spins and turns in harmonic tension: the spin of yarns, the rolling of cloth, the unspooling of thread, the turning of hand cranks and take up levers. The scroll of the lint roller is a culminating turn, picking up the aftermath of what has transpired on my table top, but disassociated from the outcome of a garment
