Studio Progress May-June 2025

I have been working on unstretched, unprimed canvas. Thinking about installation methods that don’t include stretchers. With tapestry hanging in mind, I am playing with stitching canvases together (like Hugo Koha Lindsay work at Art Fair). Always thinking about the FEMININE LINE and it’s UNRAVELLING. Machine line, like an irreverent seamstress. Stitch. Marks with pastel and crayon and felt tip, childlike materials. Drops of paint (like Pollock and his disregard for the hierarchy of the canvas, painted over the edges). The staining from the dye actually looks interesting from the back side of the canvas as does the stitching from the back side. The knots, the fastenings, the impression. I sewed fabric onto the canvas the ripped it or cut it off, leaving frayed edges and unpicked threads of previous stitching. After a supervisor meeting, we talked about ripping up the canvases and sewing them back together, showing the back face (referencing the back of tapestries).