bookhou at home

when I'm making work - any kind of work - there is this process of going back over things - deciding how it will work and when you don't have anyone around to give you advice or suggestions, you go with your gut. I started off with these pieces and something felt right - but I felt it wasn't enough - I began on other pieces attempting to make different things - and quickly that was abandoned and I went back to this first idea - I began to think about my project description for the capacity show (below) and I think it helped to clarify the idea. there are so many parts to what I do, sketching to prototyping to making to writing - they all feed into each other. hope you like these as much as I do.

these brooches are made of natural dyed fabric and are quilt like in their construction. they are formed not from subdividing a space but from the inside out, growing into and finding their shape. at a certain point I decide to stop the patch-working process and the limits or capacity of each piece results.

still, despite their small size, they suggest a greater field- a continuation beyond their frame or limit. this greater field is unknowable and can only be suggested from their fragmented state.