BACK STITCH ECHO (2004) (moving image)
DURATION: 6 MINS 33 SECS
Just as technology permits us to
trace the echo and view an image of, for example, the beat of the heart, here
it has allowed me to capture and reveal a trace of my own rhythmic movements
when creating a row of back stitch. Whilst sewing a stitch, each of us develops
our own attractor*, the dynamic system or pathway that our hand, needle and
thread travels along to make it, and this piece makes visible the mark of my
own hand when producing this basic stitch. The first section alludes to the
adjustments in my gesture needed to make the stitching fit a particular
situation, the second refers to the way in which the flow of the repeated motion
alters according to the speed I work at, and the third, to the continual
repetitive action needed to produce a series of back stitches which then gradually
constructs an echo of my own personal attractor for this stitch.
* N.B ATTRACTORS are geometric shapes where Phase
space is an imaginary three-dimensional mathematical space where all possible
motions of a dynamic system can be visualized as geometric shapes called
ATTRACTORS.
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