Threads Threads Loosing a shoe-running away with a pantomime horse-threads and old clothes on a dust sheet-220cm x 200cm (7ft2x6ft 5) Loosing a shoe -detail Loosing a shoe detail (3) Loosing a shoe detail (2) This is it-recyled materials and stiched threads-40cm x 34cm (16x13) Peace love and pancakes-thread on old linen-40cm x 40cm (16x16) Goodly threads, hope guardian for woanderers- recycled clothes, stuffing, wire, thread, recycled wood-toy globe- 200cm Tall-132cm Deep-132 Wide Goodly threads - detail 1 Goodly threads detail 2 Goodly threads detail 3- this text is sewn on the back of the jacket-This too will (shall) pass, and all will (shall) be well’ - thread sewn on fabric (detail of 'Goodly threads: the woanderers gaurdian) ‘This too will (shall) pass’ is from a Persian Sufi fable, in which wise men inscribe their kings ring with these words to make him happy. This fable also appears in Jewish folklore- later (1852) the English poet Edward Fitzgerald 'borrowed' this story in his poem, titled 'Solomon's Seal' -Abraham Lincoln also borrowed the phrase in his 1859 address. ‘…and all will (shall) be well…’ are words from Julian Of Norwich’s ‘Revelations of Divine Love’, the document she wrote of her visions (which she called shewings) This too will pass, and all will be well’ brings together different faiths, offering hope in these troubled times. This saying was passed to me by my mother (and her mother before her). I don’t know whether they understood its full origins, (Persian Sufi, Jewish, Christian). We dont know- textile fragments and thread on an old napkin-44cm x 44cm (17x17) We dont know detail 1 We dont know detail 2 We don't know -detail 3 Patterened Pony-textile fragments and thread on an old napkin-40cm x 42cm (16x17) Patterend pony detail 1 Patterened pony detail 2 Pattered Pony details 3 Love for all-textile fragments and thread on an old napkin-54cm x 51cm (22x20) Love for all detail 1 Love fo all detail 2 Love for all detail 3 Cowboys dream fragments of fabric and thread on an old napkin-50cm x 50cm (19x19) Cowboys dream detail 1 Cowboys dream detail 2 Cowboys dream detail 3 Maybe possibly you never know- various fabrics and threads on an nold napkin- 43cm x 43cm (17x17) Maybe possibly you never know-detail 1 Maybe possibly you never know-detail 2 Maybe possibly you never know-detail 3 Am I dreaming- various fragments of fabric and trhead on an old pillow case-80cm x 50cm (30x20) Am I dreaming detail 1 Am I dreaming detail 2 Am I dreaming detail 3
