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Draped Interiors is a title that is meant to reference my interest in textiles and their relationship to supports that are common to domestic spaces. Juxtaposing cloth with wooden structures, which often reference furniture or other forms of interior architecture, sets up a dialogue between the hard and soft or rigid and fluid. These opposing characteristics also create a dynamic connection of both line and plane. Cloth is soft, planar, and malleable. It is affected by gravity while wooden moldings, dowels, or simple 1 x 2s are linear elements with structural integrity. Wood has, for a very long time, been used as the most practical material for household construction. It provides the bones that can give shape, support, and definition to form and space. The role of the textile is then like the skin, which covers the bones with the associations of feelings like warmth and comfort.All of my sculptures combine familiar forms and materials in unexpected and unusual ways that deny function and inspire mystery. This abstraction of the real alters our awareness of these objects and our relationship to them. Focusing on line and plane, and the relationship of hard and soft, my wooden fabric constructions challenge our expectations. Inspired by objects that many of us see every day in the home, these reconfigurations provoke different perceptions and invite various interpretations. |
