Patch by Moira
Patch
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Creator
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Moira
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Story
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The piece of stitched fabric that I have contributed is a fragment from a piece that has been kicking around for a long time. It is a perfect example of the quandary we face as textile practitioners regarding the value of the work we do. It started life as a response to the sea at Porthmeor Beach viewed from the café in Tate St Ives. (Middle class arty farty nonsense). It grew slowly away from the seaside, and I never quite loved it and was left with something that had small artistic worth and that I couldn’t turn into anything else. Yet I was unwilling to throw it away. This is often the situation with pieces of textile work – particularly embroidery. We wonder if it should be displayed on a wall, or made into something “useful” such as a cushion or bag or tea cosy or quilt, or, or, or (I guess artists in other media have the same problem with pieces that haven’t earned their frame, but surely none of them are hoping that a painting can be turned into something “useful”). Anyway, I’m happy to have found a new life for a small portion of the work and now that I’ve had the courage to cut it up, I’ll probably be able to incorporate the rest of it into something else.
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Rights Holder
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Moira
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Rights
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All rights reserved.
