“We live in the cities. The cities live in us.” – Wim Wenders
Cities have character, they have personality. They reflect the times and places in which they are built just as they come to represent the people who live and work within their borders. My work seeks to build a bridge between textiles and the built environment. Through different lacemaking techniques, I explore concepts within architecture and urban planning, investigating ideas of span and space, form and pattern, social construction, gently stepping between the natural and the built world. We change our cities, but our cities also change us.
-Artist Statement from her website at :
http://rosemarydardick.com
Personally I appreciate that Dardick incorporates multiple mediums to truly get her ideas about place and identity across. Photographs of embroidered fabric mimic clouds in a landscape photograph. Adding the element of lace truly transforms every environment it is placed in, so that the element of documentation becomes a parallel (ahem) thread to the larger body of work. Dardick is an MFA student at Cranbrook Academy of Art. I found her in FiberArts Magazine, and the example of her work that initially caught my eye is not online at all. It consists of arial photographs of highway systems juxtaposed with handmade lace that mirrors the highway.
Untitled, red lace; Procion dye, silkscreen on white Habotai silk, 55x 216", 2007
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