Slow Line Falling. 2020 - 2025

Embroidery.

Slow line Falling measures 200 x 240 cm, and hangs freely from the wall.

Black stitch with black cotton on a family heirloom : a white linen or flax sheet 100 years old.

It’s called ‘Slow Line Falling’ as it’s a kind of walk I could have done under Lockdown: With all the time on my hands during this period in 2020, I returned again and again to the top of an imaginary mountain, and slowly stitched my way down, following imaginary tracks and paths that sometimes meandered sideways before suddenly plunging steeply down, over boulders and gullies. Nearing the base of the mountain every thread - or track - falls freely beyond the base, and dangles, like an abandoned climber’s rope.

In 2024, feeling that the image was incomplete, I sewed another 100 ‘tracks’ or so down the mountain-side, and completed this in 2025. I feel now that it has more presence, and the surface has been explored more thoroughly! I have walked and stumbled all the way down!