Ann Maki - Artist Statement

My work consists of hand-dyed fabrics, colorful threads and yarns and the use of machine stitch to create two-dimensional abstract assemblages of embellished and manipulated cotton fabrics. High contrast color relationships and textured surfaces are expressive on multiple levels. Representations of physical damage in nature become illusions to emotional woundedness and healing.

Thread sketches are single layers of embellished fabric that are often calming and alluding to movement such as water in a stream or the waves at the edge of a body of water.

By layering torn fabric and manipulating it to open up to a thread sketch beneath, the work takes on more depth and texture.  The pieces become studies in woundedness and healing or the consequences of damage found in nature.  Elements of the underlying thread sketch flow over the torn layer, softening the harshness of the raw edges as damage is healed or mitigated.
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