Shadow Stitch II

The wedding dress

Continuing to experiment with the shadow stitch on translucent fabric that I have at hand rekindled my earlier idea to make a work that engages with notions of a wedding dress. I have attempted applying multiple wavy lines of herringbone stitch across the remnant of fabric embellished with metal purls that I feel evokes a sense of silky materiality of wedding dresses.

I have used the remnant as a starting point to build an assemblage that includes one cream scarf that I took from my family home, a scrap of tulle and a scrap of gauze. By layering of various semi translucent and tonally close fabrics I aimed to convey temporality through the materials' susceptibility to yellowing and tearing. The shadow stitch, which on the surface appears as a trajectory of seed stitches but once exposed to a source of light reveals a more complex structure, is used to metaphorically engage with the tension between private and public aspects of the wedding rituals.