Spool from my grandmother's sewing box - thread from my dissertation.
Began with a realistic drawing of a spool of thread, and then went in another direction when I tried to weave some text into this painting:
Text and textile have their origin in the Latin word texere, to weave, and English is full of sayings and metaphors connecting textile work with storytelling and deception: follow the thread of an argument, a fabrication, a tissue of lies, what a tangled web we weave...
Posted by EGP at March 18, 2005 10:47 PM