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| The Thread Counts Project |
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Words and phrases spun from our deeply rooted human experience
with sewing, mending, and weaving permeate our conversations
and testify to the enduring necessity of the act. Thread demonstrates
the power of unity through diversity. Though it functions
as a single unit, the filament is a composite – woven
together from a vast range of raw materials extracted from
the bounty of the earth – organic, synthetic, animal,
vegetable, mineral. By joining forces with other threads,
a vast range of new materials is produced to expand our scope
of possibility. These powerful new materials are multi-faceted
and operate in uncanny ways. Ultimately, a network of ingenious
body extensions threads us into a vascular web of global communication
systems, binding memories of our material past to the continually
unfolding future.
The Thread Counts Project, coordinated by Luanne Stovall and
Leila Lee Mitchell for Gallery Artists Studio Projects, is
designed to investigate the binding nature of thread and to
recognize its dual role as both a noun and a verb. Through
this lens, thread is experienced as an interconnective dynamic
tissue that operates at the core of our daily lives. To shed
light on the nature of thread is to speak of cooperation and
continuity, from the past to the present, with an eye to the
future.
Throughout the exhibition, the projects and events will resonate
with the act of threading or weaving, identify this act as
a place of exploration, and respond imaginatively –
rather than literally – to the theme.
For additional information contact www.threadcountsproject.com.
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