A real flurry of comments on Ruth Geldard’s blog! I actually like that quote from Balzac as in some ways it is very close to one I use on my website from Richard Serra:
From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.(Honore de Balzac)
…the vulnerability that’s exposed in an abstract drawing is as readable as one that’s made into a figurative drawing … drawing is the most credible indicator in a very direct way of who people are in relation with what they make.” (Richard Serra)
The relationship of stitch to drawing is very close and that notion of individuality being readable is very evident from the Boat Cloth made as part of The Voyagers project.
I have a couple of images of the installation now though it is hard to see the full impact of it which follows the axis of the Bronze Age Boat in its case, on top of which is a screen showing Philippe Bazin’s film “Un bateau albanais”. Am waiting for more pics.
