I have been commissioned to write a new text for the publication Grafting
Propriety: From Stitch to the Drawn Line, by Danica Maier (Black Dog
Publishing, 2015). Grafting Propriety showcases the work of Maier whose artwork follows the domestic object and drawing, with a particular
interest in stitch, textiles and the decorative. Using subtle slippages and
moments of detail to transgress propriety the artist questions the role of the
object as well as the role of women in relation to labour. Grafting
Propriety explores how textile agendas can be addressed without the use of
the material, for example how textile methodology can be recreated in drawing
and the drawn stitched line.
My text 'Sampler of Samplers: Repeating Repeats, Repeats', addresses various ideas around repetition. This research and writing has
connections to the current work I am engaged in with Clare Thornton (as part of
the project The Italic I, where we are currently working on a text
entitled The Italic I: How Repeating Repeats - on the Differential and
the Interval Between) and my involvement in the research project Weaving
Codes / Coding Weaves where I am further investigating Penelopian labour. Below is a version of the text.