SUSPENDED 1 Antique silk thread, cotton muslin and chalk. * * The suspension of the breath. The suspension of time. The impossibility of suspension. This red thread project is about impermanence. Particularly the fragility and impermanence of the human body. The stitching is a transcription of a breath drawing, similar to the one in my last post, one of a series of 30, that I began about a year and a half ago, but then had to abandon due to a health crisis. That project itself - suspended. My materials too explore impermanence and the breaking down of organic matter. The antique silk thread, nearly 100 years old, is so fine and soft it feels like human hair in your palm, and it's perishing even as I unspool it from its wooden reel. Cotton muslin, the fabric associated with the two ends of life, the mopping up of infiants, and of bodily fluids, the binding and cleansing of wounds, and the wrapping of the dead; the fabric so loosely woven it barely holds the thread, and is constantly on the point of fraying. And finally chalk, composed of the dead bodies of sea creatures billions of years old, and so soft that to rub a thumb against it is to make its shed like skin. Each stitch is a reminder that nothing will last. * * * #mindfulstitching #stitchingmeditation #sculpture #contemporaryart #slowstitching #slowstitch #redthread #redwork #imprrmanence #stitch #zen #fibreart #embroidery #textileart #contemporaryembroidery #handstitching #modernembroidery #contemporarycraft #slowcraft #stitching #stitchersofinstagram #markmaking #breath #drawing #fibreartistofinstagram #fibreartist #instaembroidery #embroideryart #embroiderersofinstagram #fineart https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzn1ZYSH5-f/?igshid=wd7cj0euwfu5
