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“In my work, I combine crochet, a fiber technique, with materials and processes associated with
In the Memory series, I spray acrylic paint through and over antique and vintage doilies, as well as some I personally made. Paint is applied one color at a time, in layers, and is allowed to dry before spraying the next color. After paint- ing, found fibers are then stitched and crocheted onto the paper substrate, breaching and altering its surface and edges. Like a lot of the doilies, the fibers I utilize in Memory came from other people, mostly other artists.
Manipulated into new forms or altered by physi- cal fiber stitches, the compositions recreate the doilies in a different medium. The doilies are distorted, inverted, manipulated, and altered through the creation process intentionally and unintentionally, and mimic how we all relate to the past: we forget, remember incorrectly, recall certain pieces clearer than others, and evolve the event as we remember and retell it. The inversion, distortion, and alteration of the doilies with paint and fiber illustrate how memories can be unreliable imprints that have been filtered and edited. The works in this series will never
be actual doilies or even representations of one, just as our memories will never be the complete and entirely accurate version of events.”
painting, sculpture, and jewelry.
Katie schutte