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baby blanket - 2020
Baby Blanket makes use of scraps of fabric from a blanket stitched by my grandmother for my mother, which was then handed down to my older sister. These scraps are two generations old and are well worn from constant use. Underneath the delicate grid pattern made by the saved fabric are sketches done with the tin lizzie. Figures dance in the thick felt of the blanket, dyed with chamomile tea, their forms are long and curling, drawn loosely as suggestions of bodies and faces. The stitching causes the felt to create ridges of free moving curves, overlaid with a frail grid. The piece shows clear conflict between a grid being slowly worn away with time, and free motion strong enough to alter the shape of its surface.