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Melanie Carr: Artist Statement My sewn canvases are an exploration of the process of deconstruction/reconstruction resulting in sewn, scar-like forms that trail across the canvas. The canvases are cut, contorted, stitched and stretched back together and then stained with ink washes. My aim is to create tension within the mended space, and to evoke the processes of nature; the cracks in the pavement the way the body heals itself I engage process and material to create undefined space; often using sewing as a meditative discipline using woven, moving line; soft and strong. Sewing and pinning become mark making; allowing me to address the mystery of composition. My work relies on constant drawing and observation; using rough materials such as torn paper and a stick to draw. Although my earlier works were influenced by Tapies; recent influences include Agnes Martin and Richard Tuttle. In particular, Tuttle speaks of dimensionality…"if a painting could act like a line instead of being the ground for a line" this speaks to the current direction of my work. In Forms, I broke away from the traditional rectangle of earlier works creating a spillage of space across the wall. Martin's work engages a clean sense of order, geometry, and mathematical purity; line that has life. Currently, I am making pieces using vinyl, ink, pins, wire and gauze; replacing the plasticity and use of paint in earlier work. I am interested in exploring the lightness that material alone provides; modesty, humility and randomness. |
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