Jul
24
Tatting Devine
Filed Under New Obsession
Once in a while, I really get hung up on the exact meaning of a word. How to best use a word in a sentence, the subtle differences it has over similar words or synonyms, and just how much of an argument can be strengthened or weakened by a particular choice of word or words.
So instead of being interested in the design of things, I’ve been paying more attention to the anatomy and architecture of things. I’ve been concerned with the making than with the resolving. (Does that make sense?)
Tatting (making lace) has been one of the things that have satisfied my exploration into anatomy and architecture. Particularly, the drawings and sketches used to establish the patterns and process necessary to create such intricate designs. (Doing better?)
Teri Dusenbury’s Tatting Hearts are anatomical and architectural. Truly, the blueprints to the body. There is something here, and more just lace.
I would construct an entire body with tatting, but in layers, like the medical posters displaying the parts of the body in labs and doctor offices, and maybe have it so that one string connects all the pieces throughout. Maybe this one string could be the one thing that could unravel the time-consuming work (of the body) into a pile of unworkable string.
Or maybe it should be a larger body of work, string finding order and disorder, organized into parts (body or otherwise) and then mapped randomly (on gallery walls, floors, or just as piles again of stringy mess) the points where architecture looses anatomy and vice-versa, anchored by flat pins, like little markers.
However, such a project, with pins as points, marking areas from where order is suspect of beginning and ending, would be an exercise into another “A” word I am always engrossed by; that is, ailment.
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Natalie, do you know how much I love this idea?!!
I know! So genius! Schematics. This is where it’s at!