Sketchbook Project 2011: ...you'd be home by now...

"...you'd be home by now..." 

I made this series of embroidered drawings for The Art House Co-op's Sketchbook Project 2011.

If you happen to be near one of the exhibitions on the tour, stop on by!

A bit o' embroidery

A little embroidery I've been working on lately.

Place Space Exhibition 8.15.10 - 12.15.10

Preliminary installation photos of

Wherever you go, there you are. (2010)

The beginnings of a collaborative Holding My Breath. (2010)

A sign on the table will soon read:

Step 1: Unfold paper bag

Step 2: Inflate with your breath

Step 3: Twist top

Step 4: Add to the pile

Close ups of the paper bag layers.

Aura (standing) (2010)

Place Space
Naomi Falk, Solomon Isekeije, Jayson Lowery, Ed Pollard

8.15.10 - 12.15.10

Neil Britton Art Gallery
Virginia Wesleyan College
1584 Wesleyan Dr, Norfolk, VA 23502

Reception: Thur, Sept 9, 2010, 4 - 6pm

Paper landscape

Closeup of my current Holding My Breath piece in progress. This is a stack of 500 paper lunch bags. They are sitting on a small table with a sign that reads:

Step 1: Unfold paper bag

Step 2: Inflate with your breath

Step 3: Twist top
Step 4: Add to the pile

I like the layered, sedimentary, landscape-ish sort of feel to them at this stage.

And the hankies say...

I embroidered hankies with individual words that you can change around as you see fit.

Above currently reads:
I Love You Don't Miss Me

Other possibilities:
I Miss You
You Miss Me
Don't You Love Me
You Love Me
I Don't Miss You
I Love You

Drawing from the tradition of monogramming or personalizing our belongings, against loss, as a memento of a special occasion, or a caring acknowledgment, I embroidered a series of words on handkerchiefs. Literally playing on words, depending on their arrangement, this piece also serves as a tender reflection on relationships and the differences shifting one's viewpoint might make.

Just found on Twitter

A (well-spoken) tweet from the Anton Art Center from Mar 28, 2009:

Artist Naomi Falk just led us in making circumferences of ourselves out of string/yarn/ribbon - now I can hold myself in the palm of my hand

From:
http://twitter.com/AntonArtCenter/status/1408759046

from Michigan Left: Naomi J. Falk & Jayson Lowery

Holding My Breath, 1,000 paper lunch bags, breath, 2009