Tuesday, September 21, 2010

The Invisable Becoming Visable

My dreams are sometimes easily translatable to fabric and stitch. This morning I woke with a dream of a doorway with a second black square entrance beyond it. I wanted to bring that further to light, so I discharged black cotton, but while I was waiting for the appearance of the colour change, I realized that black velvet felt like a better match, so I embossed velvet with a diamond shape and I love how it is both there and not there - you could miss it if you didn't look closely and from a certain direction. Anything or nothing could be hiding in the dark. I illuminated this with extra light so that it's visible here: Each time the needle goes down it brings up more light.



4 comments:

jude said...

a nice explanation through stitch.

Yvonne said...

Thanks - it emerges with the making.

grace Forrest~Maestas said...

there and not there
you could miss it if you didn't
look closely

seems to apply to a
LOT.

Yvonne said...

It does, doesn't it? Maybe there's a poem, here...