estuary

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in

having new eyes." --Proust

I pull from the archive, re-negotiate its associations and re-place the object back into an archive functioning in clusters as opposed to temporal linearity. The archival landscape as a spatial location can lose its place, but it is the body or the memory that locates it through narrative attempts.

The act of embroidery incorporates a typically feminine practice, whereby mother teaches daughter what a “good woman” does. The embroidered knot represents a duality of calm and crazy, in its faint and fluid occupation of space and its complex and discouraging sense of beginning and end. In an attempt to follow the lines of the knot the eye is led in, out and along pathways, guiding the mind into a meditative cycle of looping again and again and again.

The human eye is accustomed to lines, which lead the view into or out of a two dimensional space, similar to the way the human mind is accustomed to pathways of narration—a linear direction from beginning to end through a consecutive period of time.

The embroidered knot over the landscape affects the narrative whereby, the end is not obvious and the beginning is disguised. For me the narrative movement in this work is encased in memory. I want to incorporate enough room in this work for the viewer to stretch and follow the passages that open.