"...With extraordinary delicacy and devotion, Blanck has sewn complex networks of coloured thread onto sheets of paper... Her images both mimic natural forms and suggest unnatural combinations ...They are also completely beautiful.”
Robin Laurence
The Georgia Straight
(Shift: Working Through Repetition and Difference)
I began using collaged leaf fragments, abutting them together, and combining them with "threading". This freeform and chaotic line work, eventually also geometrically configured, felt like suturing. I was connecting the dots... and re-connecting with Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". These pieces became THE FABRIC OF NATURE: THE BEAUTIFUL FRANKENSTEINS.
Formally, these pieces are drawings which lie somewhere between linear drawing, collage, printmaking, and stitchery.
Conceptually they stretch from string theory - through issues of ecology - to demented spiders and the constellations - around childhood and the teaching of Art and Science... all the while connecting and reconnecting the dots...