Responding to Sam White’s postcard which was an oblong with ‘onand’ machine stitched onto it in red thread (top) and black underneath. Her words on the back of the card are ‘ whether we like it or not – Life goes on and on and on…’
I pondered how to respond for a while (I’m meant to return the postcard within a week of receiving, but went way over this time limit)
With this I’ve tried to just ‘let go’ and work in a way that feels right, not try and come up with anything clever and contrived. I definately can overthink these things sometimes!
When I started threaded strips of handmade paper through Sam’s stitching I intended to then weave more paper strips through and so have the writing rising out of the card. Instead, as carried on threading, what was happening by building up strips like this was that it appears to be growing out of the base. Growth is a theme I touch upon every now and again. If I then wove strips through this growth would become something else, something overworked, perhaps.
