The Marriage Of True Minds
Working on Shakespeare's sonnet 116 has made me re-examine how I construct books using textiles. When analyzing the text of this sonnet, I took a deep dive into the history of thought and knowledge. How information is documented and re-analyzed each generation. What has changed? What has remained the same? Looking at the text in this light, in the now, but not forgetting the historical past lingering in the shadows, I realized that the poem was much more complex than I had initially thought. And, instead of working on it daily for four weeks, I worked on it daily for twenty weeks.
Here are some WIP imagery inspired by Sonnet 116:
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| Linocut printed onto a quilted page. |
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| A few textile pages waiting to be sewn into a book. |
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| Silkscreening sonnet 116 onto hand-painted fabric by Suzanne Coley |
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