Tufted Dressing Gown, 2008

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

This wall piece was inspired by an old photograph of a woman in a tufted dressing gown. She looks to me like a ghost come to deliver a message on her robe. 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.