Bin keeping Alice Kettle and Jane Mc Keating's wonderful 'hand stitch- PERSPECTIVES' as a treat to read when the brain has enough space to compute new information...
The whole is a series of essays by artists and academics specialising in art and textiles.
I particularly enjoyed 'The Mindful Hand' by David Owen.
Owen explores the relationship between the hand and the brain.
Tate St Ives July 2011
As someone who has often thought the problems of frizzy hair and wardrobe crisis could be totally avoided by a transformation of self to what is essential!, and considered that this could be achieved by a 'reincarnation' as a cyber-form consisting of Hand- Eyes- Brain, this is of particular interest...
self working in studio, acrylic on silk
".....Consider: the eye observes, focuses and gazes, while the hand touches, holds and wields. Through the eye we encounter the appearance of the world as spectators and, within the context of the face, express reactions:the subtle glance, the wide-eyed stare, the cheeky wink the frank or hooded gaze. Through the hand, we encounter the appearance, and engage the substance, of the world as agents: we run our fingers across the ply of fabric, stretch it between our hands, fold or tear it into shapes. (The importance of the difference becomes clear if we try to imagine a world in which it is the look that acts physically on the material of the world and the hand that spectates.)......"
self working on 'Eccleston' and 'Farndon' in studio,
here stitched water ripples to the river reflection with silk thread
onto the painted substrate
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