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Common Threads. Volume 117

Item date(s): 2019

Candace Hicks


Medium: Fabric
Pages: unpaged
Size: 220mm
Binding: Bubble-wrap zip-pouch.
Technique: Embroidered.
Language: English
Inscription: Signed by the artist
Edition: Unique


Place publication: [Nacogdoches, Texas]
Publisher: The artist

Additional notes:
The fabric pages mimic a blue-ruled ledger with a red line down the side, with the text in black thread.

"Common Threads, a series of hand-embroidered unique canvas books which copy the form and design of dime-store 'composition' books. The books themselves, self-consciously hand-made objects, are a record of coincidental occurrences generally gleaned from reading or mundane events. The use of embroidery thread allows for the production of the text and image with the same mark and material, to make the text, image and substance of the book inseparable. Artist's statement: Storytelling is key to Candace Hicks' artistic practice. There is an implied narrative in everything, even, as Hicks addresses with her work, in the seemingly pointless mental wheel spinning that is a part of daily life. Her work acknowledges the unavoidability of simulation and the impossibility of originality. Her choice of the book as a principle medium is due to the phenomenon of the book as authoritative. Books provide an arena in which fiction can be accepted as fact and observations can take on a mythic narrative quality. Her interest in books also stems from their inherent unity of text and image, which lends books continued relevance as a transmedia hybrid."--Description from Booklyn Artists Alliance website,

Exhibition notes:
Beyond Words

JGCBA

20 June - 11 Aug 2023

Ref: GB/33431













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