Common Threads Vol 126 has a cover that is embroidered with a light brown pattern of the COVID-19 virus. The thread weaves from livestock to Keats, uses for urine, and back to livestock.
Common Threads is a series of hand-embroidered unique canvas books which copy the form and design of dime-store “composition” books. The books themselves, self-consciously hand-made objects, are a record of coincidental occurrences generally gleaned from reading or mundane events. The use of embroidery thread allows for the production of the text and image with the same mark and material, to make the text, image, and substance of the book inseparable.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT— Storytelling is key to Candace Hicks’ artistic practice. There is an implied narrative in everything, even, as Hicks addresses with her work, in the seemingly pointless mental wheel-spinning that is a part of daily life. Her work acknowledges the unavoidability of simulation and the impossibility of originality. Her choice of the book as a principle medium is due to the phenomenon of the book as authoritative. Books provide an arena in which fiction can be accepted as fact and observations can take on a mythic narrative quality. Her interest in books also stems from their inherent unity of text and image, which lends books continued relevance as a transmedia hybrid.
Common Threads, Vol 126
Common Threads, Vol 126
Date
2020
Edition Size
1
Media
Embroidery
Binding
Hand-sewn
Format
Artist Book
Dimensions
9 × 7 in
Collection
Collection Development, Unique BooksRelated
commentary, covid$ 2,200.00
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
University of Virginia (UVA)
Common Threads Vol 126 has a cover that is embroidered with a light brown pattern of the COVID-19 virus. The thread weaves from livestock to Keats, uses for urine, and back to livestock.
Common Threads is a series of hand-embroidered unique canvas books which copy the form and design of dime-store “composition” books. The books themselves, self-consciously hand-made objects, are a record of coincidental occurrences generally gleaned from reading or mundane events. The use of embroidery thread allows for the production of the text and image with the same mark and material, to make the text, image, and substance of the book inseparable.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT— Storytelling is key to Candace Hicks’ artistic practice. There is an implied narrative in everything, even, as Hicks addresses with her work, in the seemingly pointless mental wheel-spinning that is a part of daily life. Her work acknowledges the unavoidability of simulation and the impossibility of originality. Her choice of the book as a principle medium is due to the phenomenon of the book as authoritative. Books provide an arena in which fiction can be accepted as fact and observations can take on a mythic narrative quality. Her interest in books also stems from their inherent unity of text and image, which lends books continued relevance as a transmedia hybrid.
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