Tufted Dressing Gown, 2008

heat-molded fabric, chenille balls, hot glue, spray paint

This wall piece was inspired by a faded photograph of a woman in a tufted dressing gown. I saw her robe as part magic garment, room decor and pictorial message-transmitter. Tufting, an embroidery technique popularized in Dalton, Georgia in the late 1800s, was once ubiquitous on bedspreads and other textiles. I became interested in the tufts themselves as a method of drawing and message- transmission.