03/24/2022
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Thanks for the lovely post about my piece- “Fabric Of Our Lives, Diptych”.
Posted • Even though our exhibition, “Who We Are: Portraying Identity” will be closed this week for Spring Break, we’ve been gradually posting the work here as a virtual tour. The show will continue March 28 through April 8, so please come visit if you are in the area. There is such a diversity of identities represented, it really makes you think about all the factors that are at work! We are grateful to Pauli Ochi of for the wonderful selection she juried from hundreds of entries.
Sue Bradford
“Fabric of Our Lives” 2020
intaglio solarplate on Rives BFK
$1600
Sue Bradford]
“My work strives to take something intangible and make it tangible: uncovering and mining hierarchical, gender and societal structures and excavating memory from clothes and places. I am creating conceptual “cloth” as a form of feminine lineage.
A feminine cloth is soft in weight, strong in weave, slubbed in places, lays over terrain, obstacles, sharp objects, or crevasses, it gathers and stretches, it carries memories, is worn through in places and is darned or repaired in others. It softens with use and wear.
Every day leaves us with a series of impressions. Marks. Traces. Seams in clothing, lines of stitching, depressions in paper, spoken words, all leave marks behind. Tracing these marks tells imagined stories and reveal maps… trails from which we can traverse a timeline of experience.
Using found female clothing, discarded photos, book pages, thread and ink, I reveal relationships between my materials and these intangible concepts.
Imagining textiles that hold the histories of other women in the form of a dress, standard feminine attire, implying that all those who have come before are in the very warp and weft of the fabrics in our lives.”
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