Time has given me space to sew without necessarily trying to create a finished piece of work. Using material I had to hand and natural and white threads, I’ve been working on how to make both sides of the fabric of equal value - no right or wrong side. The colour of cloth is not my usual choice and I have found myself continually trying to tone down the strength of the yellow ochre. The seed stitched name of one of the Catacombs in Rome is one attempt to do that, and on the other side, attaching a strip of natural coloured fabric.
The process of stitching, the time it takes and the nature of the rhythmical movement, gives time for ideas to occur and develop. Much has to be removed and ceases therefore to exist except in my memory - but that visual impression and the feeling of the stitching rhythm feeds what replaces it.
