Description
About this piece:
A thread is a thin filament which may be entangled with other threads. A trace is a linear mark left on a surface by a continuous movement. Though threads and traces are different, each may transform the other. In the artist book th(read), I play with the way “read” is embedded in the word “thread” to create a book of threads that one can read in visual and tactile ways. In the book, inked thread creates the trace when pressed into the paper. The trace breaks free of the flat surface as threads extend from the printed lines.
Materials:
paper, ink, thread
About the artist:
Lives and works in Carpinteria, California
Linda Ekstrom completed her Masters of Fine Art degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1996. She taught printmaking and book arts courses in the Department of Art and in the College of Creative Studies for 25 years. Her art practice is anchored in the book as a cultural and symbolic object, and as a container of history, narrative, and memory. She is inspired by the intersections between art and the sacred, and the ritual dimension present in art practice. Her artists’ books and altered book sculptures have been exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions.
