Interview with SVMOA
SO, THREAD IS JUST ANOTHER MEDIUM FOR EXPRESSION. CAN YOU TALK ABOUT YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO YOUR MATERIALS, HOW YOU CHOOSE OR FIND THE MATERIALS YOU USE?
A: My work in other media—ink, paper, cotton cording, wire—is very gestural and process-oriented. I think a lot about what a material does naturally, what its gestural language is, and what it might help me see or say. There’s a lot of experimentation as I develop an almost collaborative relationship with those materials, a give and take. My work with thread has become a more mediative, grounding, and deliberate part of my practice. The Waiting Room Recordingswere like a sketchbook, little abstracted notations that refer to various influences and obsessions. They were made with sewing thread (not embroidery floss), some from my grandmother’s supplies. The thin size of the thread almost matches the gauge of the weave of the linen—they feel like weavings. left the indentations of the embroidery hoop visible as a reminder of the process, evidence of one of the tools used to make the work.