If a Block should Tumble

This piece uses the Thread Painting technique, the continuous movement of fabric under a sewing machine needle. After the surfaces are all machine stitched, they are then constructed – sewn by hand into 3-dimensional shapes. Some of the volume is implied employing traditional shading, others are truly 3-D. In “If a Block should Tumble” I used both techniques hoping to both, fool the eye and fool the mind. My background in welding steel sculpture is evident in my fabric work. At 64 (And after 2 shoulder surgeries), I began looking back to my sewing machine to find a way to extend my need to create. My first Thread Paintings were full value drawings from years of sketchbooks for sculpture, but gradually I began to build the actual 3-D constructions these drawings had always implied.