Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit
Mark Newport
Amends 2, 2018
Embroidery on cotton
84 x 33 x 1/2 inches
Shipping Location: Detroit, MI
These works begin when the artist cuts a hole into the cloth. The repairs are made using traditional textile darning and mending techniques learned from studying European and American mending...
These works begin when the artist cuts a hole into the cloth. The repairs are made using traditional textile darning and mending techniques learned from studying European and American mending samplers. Whether the area of repair is immediately visible or camouflaged, mending these holes leaves a scar that speaks of intimacy, vulnerability, and futility.
Textile and skin are intimately connected. Physical proximity causes sweat and strength, dirt and fear, love and cologne to embed in cloth and flesh indiscriminately. The mark left on our clothes and skin is the reminder of a story both epic and mundane that describes how we became who we are.