Every stitch is a prick!, Hand-quilted layers of fabric, thread, and wooden needles, 175 x 600 cm
In the site-specific installation at the Barbarakerk Culemborg, I worked to understand ‘Faith’ on the historical canvas of iconoclast and how the history is marked in the form of this monumental architecture. Through the work ‘Every Stitch is a prick!’ I inquire about the presence of ‘the erased past’ and the attempts of overwriting the history in the form through the deconstruction and construction of the architecture. The work explores the binary of Faith, which has quilted colors of the history on the fabric of time.
On the fabric of time, Faith goes on weaving
Sometimes beautiful patterns, sometimes just scars
The binary of being,
every stitch is a prick too!
The fabric assemblage of semitransparent colored fabrics is installed in front of a plain glass window to generate a colourful stain glass impression. The translucent fabric dwells between presence and absence, questioning the historical mark or the presence of the erased belief systems. The needles coming down from the fabric assemblage forms the word ‘FAITH’, which dangerously points at the viewer standing beneath it; attempts to symbolize the binary of Faith itself.
On the fabric of time, Faith goes on weaving
Sometimes beautiful patterns, sometimes just scars
The binary of being,
every stitch is a prick too!
The fabric assemblage of semitransparent colored fabrics is installed in front of a plain glass window to generate a colourful stain glass impression. The translucent fabric dwells between presence and absence, questioning the historical mark or the presence of the erased belief systems. The needles coming down from the fabric assemblage forms the word ‘FAITH’, which dangerously points at the viewer standing beneath it; attempts to symbolize the binary of Faith itself.