Too Many Choices
31”H x 30”W
Do we really need all this stuff?
Discounts, coupons, and those tempting BOGOs are a bane to textile artists (as well as to consumers!) A sewing studio purge exhumed a flood of fabric, awkward amounts of embellishments, and an overabundance of unfinished fiber art. A buried quilt, previously made for an exhibition, was the perfect place to start repurposing this excess.
The diminishing borders surrounding the work illustrate the hypnotizing messages we subliminally receive to focus on buying, often things we don’t really need. The gridded center represents retail and online product variety that often overwhelms us.
I’m concerned about our world’s daily creation and destruction of products, and embarrassed by our disposable society. We have so much, while others struggle to exist with so little.
TECHNIQUES
Plastic tubes are wrapped with rayon scraps and tied with decorative yarns, hand-sewn to denim patchwork. Borders are machine sewn fabric scraps. Buttons are hand-sewn on with rescued denim thread.
MATERIALS
Thrift store fabrics including rayon and denim, repurposed from shirts and jeans; plastic tubes are from a local recycle center; yarns are gifted from fiber friends; vintage buttons; thread found in my stash, except for the rescued thread painstakingly pulled from discarded blue jeans.
PRICE INCLUDES FREE SHIPPING AND SALES TAX. (Shipments via regular ground service, to addresses in the contiguous US)
Shop with confidence! I want every customer to be happy with their selection. Please see “About Shipping and Returns” information on this website’s contact page. Thanks!
31”H x 30”W
Do we really need all this stuff?
Discounts, coupons, and those tempting BOGOs are a bane to textile artists (as well as to consumers!) A sewing studio purge exhumed a flood of fabric, awkward amounts of embellishments, and an overabundance of unfinished fiber art. A buried quilt, previously made for an exhibition, was the perfect place to start repurposing this excess.
The diminishing borders surrounding the work illustrate the hypnotizing messages we subliminally receive to focus on buying, often things we don’t really need. The gridded center represents retail and online product variety that often overwhelms us.
I’m concerned about our world’s daily creation and destruction of products, and embarrassed by our disposable society. We have so much, while others struggle to exist with so little.
TECHNIQUES
Plastic tubes are wrapped with rayon scraps and tied with decorative yarns, hand-sewn to denim patchwork. Borders are machine sewn fabric scraps. Buttons are hand-sewn on with rescued denim thread.
MATERIALS
Thrift store fabrics including rayon and denim, repurposed from shirts and jeans; plastic tubes are from a local recycle center; yarns are gifted from fiber friends; vintage buttons; thread found in my stash, except for the rescued thread painstakingly pulled from discarded blue jeans.
PRICE INCLUDES FREE SHIPPING AND SALES TAX. (Shipments via regular ground service, to addresses in the contiguous US)
Shop with confidence! I want every customer to be happy with their selection. Please see “About Shipping and Returns” information on this website’s contact page. Thanks!
31”H x 30”W
Do we really need all this stuff?
Discounts, coupons, and those tempting BOGOs are a bane to textile artists (as well as to consumers!) A sewing studio purge exhumed a flood of fabric, awkward amounts of embellishments, and an overabundance of unfinished fiber art. A buried quilt, previously made for an exhibition, was the perfect place to start repurposing this excess.
The diminishing borders surrounding the work illustrate the hypnotizing messages we subliminally receive to focus on buying, often things we don’t really need. The gridded center represents retail and online product variety that often overwhelms us.
I’m concerned about our world’s daily creation and destruction of products, and embarrassed by our disposable society. We have so much, while others struggle to exist with so little.
TECHNIQUES
Plastic tubes are wrapped with rayon scraps and tied with decorative yarns, hand-sewn to denim patchwork. Borders are machine sewn fabric scraps. Buttons are hand-sewn on with rescued denim thread.
MATERIALS
Thrift store fabrics including rayon and denim, repurposed from shirts and jeans; plastic tubes are from a local recycle center; yarns are gifted from fiber friends; vintage buttons; thread found in my stash, except for the rescued thread painstakingly pulled from discarded blue jeans.
PRICE INCLUDES FREE SHIPPING AND SALES TAX. (Shipments via regular ground service, to addresses in the contiguous US)
Shop with confidence! I want every customer to be happy with their selection. Please see “About Shipping and Returns” information on this website’s contact page. Thanks!