Duality

I am working on two shows at the same time and this one is called DUALITY. I have chosen to do something large and audacious because it is a group show and I have the rare opportunity to create something that I want to see and definetly not something that people expect of me. I have decided to look at male fragility. Actually it is for a solo show that I want to do about that topic. This work is a large quilt that I then place very fine threads onto that form words and in some instances I may consider sentances.

So this is one of the words that I shall be placing onto the quilt. I want the viewer to be able to come up to the work and not see the words at first. Or to zoom in to one or two words and then the longer they stand in fromt of the work, the more they begin to see more.

This will be the biggest work that I have done to date and I plan to do more. In fact I am thinking that I would really like to attempt using paint and full on embroidery on quilts for the solo show. But for this one, the gallery space is very typical of the modern ones you see in New York, all glass and white walls. So as I have written before, the viewer will enter the space and the piece will be filling up a large area. A large soft rectangle...completely the opposite of the work for the other show. I really hope to be able to pull off something that looks discrete and behaves like a slow burn. You look at it and believe it to be abstract in nature and then you begin to see the words form in front of you. The plan is to just make words and choose the best of them. Then see whether I can stitch them into and onto the quilt, sometimes dangle them as well. The quilt has our name and address on the back of it, so I will have to paint on it anyway. Initially I was going to make it two sided, but it will be equally strong hung as I intend it to be as well. I have a few weeks to complete it. So I shall document it in the coming weeks ahead.