A couple of months ago, Stephanie Taylor came to our studio. She was struck by how, even though our individual styles are so different, they come together to form a third thing that is strong and unique. We talked with her about how we literally see things differently. For instance, one of us might call a color "red" while the other might call the same color "rust". When Lisa Mark invited us to participate in this year's auction to benefit LACE, we decided to explore these ideas to make a new work.
We felt it was important that we didn't influence one another's approach to the project, so our first rule was to use the same constraints but to work independently without discussing our projects or showing them to one another. The guidelines we set were as follows: Make a patchwork measuring thirty by twenty-two inches using as much (hopefully all) of the fabric allotted. We assembled remnants from all of the projects we've done since our founding in 2008, divided them equally, and got to work.
Jill approached her half of the piece in a very additive, sculptural way, and I (Corrina) approached my half in a conceptual way. The work is double-sided; Jill's half shows all of the seams as well as some extra detail, and my half continues in the same way on both sides, the fabrics appearing in the order in which they were originally used. We love the result of this experiment because it says so much about each of us as individual artists and also about our collaboration.
Jill approached her half of the piece in a very additive, sculptural way, and I (Corrina) approached my half in a conceptual way. The work is double-sided; Jill's half shows all of the seams as well as some extra detail, and my half continues in the same way on both sides, the fabrics appearing in the order in which they were originally used. We love the result of this experiment because it says so much about each of us as individual artists and also about our collaboration.
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