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sewing thread, graphite, pressed nature (leaf, wax etc), COLOR AID and rag paper
variable sizes; from 11" x 17" to 22" x 30"
I made a small sculpture in which I embedded threaded needles in cork, producing a miniature 3-D “string art” piece.
In the next pieces I worked on paper; collageing and abutting leaf fragments then hand sewing - threading, suturing - to produce geometric or random pattern.
I felt like Dr. Frankenstein ~ cutting up leaves - bodies? ~ then rearranging and suturing them together with needle and thread…
This work became the THE BEAUTIFUL FRANKENSTEINS and started my exploration of threading as a drawing device.
The nature of nature: beauty, love, human worth, life, death, science ecology and ethics, are explored in our cultural fascination with plastic surgery, cryogenics, hormone replacement “therapy”, the TV "make-over" programs, genetic engineering, “Franken-foods", and ideas of Eugenics, health and ecology - the list of Nature's cultural overlay goes on...
These ideas were all clairvoyantly glimpsed in the crystal ball of Mary Shelley’s classic, “Doctor Frankenstein" - and to her remarkable piece of writing I pay homage.