ABOUT BOBBI BAUGH’S WORK
What is most interesting to me is what is not immediately visible. I am especially intrigued with seeing internal and external events in layers, and with depicting the internal and the external in a composition together.
When the subject matter is a person, my role is artist-as-storyteller. The story may involve dreams, memories, and states of being.
When the subject matter is the natural world, my role is artist-as-archaeologist: digging for things unseen to place alongside images of nature.
Textile artwork is the perfect vehicle for such explorations. There is a pleasing rhythm in hand printing fabric: monoprinting, screen print, stencils, relief and resist prints, the transfer of original photos to fabric. Once printed, the fabrics become the elements of the story. I build the works through collage, using machine stitching to construct the pieces together and to quilt the entire surface of each work.
I enjoy using low-tech, hands-on methods of creating fabric and constructing collaged quilts.
“I invite the viewer to look deeply with me. Perhaps we will both learn to see things in new ways.”
