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Worse things than[ ]empty-handed: handless, unhandled, voids
where the wantings live. Some of these books haven’t been touched
since 1970. Find a taut surface to run your hand over, a page
or concavity in which you place the longing. Worse things than [
] pathetic: all I know of gravity I read in the index. Turn to the
back. Count the puncture marks, note the space where the appendix was
[ ] last touched in 1992. Worse things than beg[ ]ing.
Hold me but keep a hand free—I can’t fill them both.
I never want to do that to you.
2017, 2023
letterpress, poetry, data cards, handwoven fabric
from a series of 14, each 12 x 8 inchesThis series combines prints on paper with handwoven fabric, completed during artist residencies at Penland School of Craft in 2017 (letterpress) and 2023 (textiles).
The poem was set in metal type, a process slower than handwriting, the keyboard, or cognitive synapse. The resulting ‘rough drafts’ included interruptions and derailments of thought inherent to the slowness of the process. They were printed on library borrower cards, the same technology used in 19th-century Jacquard weaving and 20th-century computer programming.
The fabric behind the data card was handwoven on an 8-shaft floor loom. Themes of landscape, flags, books and the body that appear in the poems are mimicked visually in the weaving patterns. They include Summer and Winter typographic block and undulating twill, woven in cotton and rayon fibers.
Worse things than[ ]empty-handed: handless, unhandled, voids
where the wantings live. Some of these books haven’t been touched
since 1970. Find a taut surface to run your hand over, a page
or concavity in which you place the longing. Worse things than [
] pathetic: all I know of gravity I read in the index. Turn to the
back. Count the puncture marks, note the space where the appendix was
[ ] last touched in 1992. Worse things than beg[ ]ing.
Hold me but keep a hand free—I can’t fill them both.
I never want to do that to you.
2017, 2023
letterpress, poetry, data cards, handwoven fabric
from a series of 14, each 12 x 8 inchesThis series combines prints on paper with handwoven fabric, completed during artist residencies at Penland School of Craft in 2017 (letterpress) and 2023 (textiles).
The poem was set in metal type, a process slower than handwriting, the keyboard, or cognitive synapse. The resulting ‘rough drafts’ included interruptions and derailments of thought inherent to the slowness of the process. They were printed on library borrower cards, the same technology used in 19th-century Jacquard weaving and 20th-century computer programming.
The fabric behind the data card was handwoven on an 8-shaft floor loom. Themes of landscape, flags, books and the body that appear in the poems are mimicked visually in the weaving patterns. They include Summer and Winter typographic block and undulating twill, woven in cotton and rayon fibers.