Where to begin? I was thinking about pasting in snippets of our first conversations but I’ve decided to write about how I remember things coming together instead.
I’m not going to talk to much about what I think now about Franny and Elenas work, at least not at the moment, I’m going to talk about what I thought when we began before they became an every day part of my life. I was first attracted to Elenas Shed and quilt work, colourful, bold and fun and the shared interest of microscopic images; this was August of last year. Elena introduced me to Franny and I immediately fell in love with her drawings which I first thought were etchings. Meticulously and beautifully executed. I understood nothing of the ethos of their work and with both it was the aesthical value of their work that first attracted me. Although I continue to appreciate the beauty, technical and talented approaches it is so much more now. On reflection I have found that the things that attracted me where the things that connected with my work or the way that I work. Now above all else I admire the way both Franny and Elena meticulously work in their different ways.
I am still interested in connections within our work but it’s not that important anymore, it’s about us now…
I suppose in the very early days I wanted to find connections as an excuse so we could work together but now I don’t need them.
Julie Dodd