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“In these pieces, I literally draw the lines and curves of each bowl, with
my hands and with the thread.
In some cases, wrapping the outside and sometimes the inside. Social anthropolo- gist Tim Ingold states, ‘We use the same verb, to draw, to refer to the activity of the hand both in the manipulation of threads and in the inscription of traces... the two are more intimately linked than we might have supposed.’ I am fascinated with the blurring of the lines between contemporary art, craft, and design. These Memory works sit somewhere between them, in that loosely drawn area, incorporating a technique that could be called ‘craft’ (threadwork) but that crosses over to contemporary art and design.”
Klare received her BA in Geology and Studio Art/Art History from Oberlin College, Ohio, where she worked in the Allen Art Museum conservation lab. In the ‘90s, she worked as a freelance textile and surface designer in San Francisco and Los Angeles. She is an MA in Fine Art candidate at University for the Creative Arts/OCA in Barnsley, UK.
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