To bind,to form through bringing together. The lines bind the fractured patterns in to what is left of a semblance. The patterns of the everyday bind the time passing, the inhabitants of the city, the city to the earth. it is in binding that histories are created and manufactured, families are formed, cultures emerge, radicalism, activism, socialism. Binding is what moves life forward, circulating the earth as the stitches weave through the fibres of the substrate.Book-binding, book construction, book folding, book making...it has a place in my practice, bringing together thread, paper, geometry, process.Moving away from the stitched books I have made previously (see work review post), the pieces called out folding, moving back to the construction of the walls in space (see post).Initially I folded instinctively.Creating a simple book from one sheet of screen-print, simply folding and slicing a divide in the middle. With no specific beginning or end the book allows the patterns to be fractured and layered repeatedly.

paper 33cm x 24cm, screen-printed, folded to 12cm sq - then folded in half.