BIO STATEMENT RESUME
I create work by means that are not only labor intensive and time consuming, but also highly repetitive. I execute these processes by hand, testing my capacity for discipline and perfection. As I walk or draw or type or sew, an image grows. Lines, stitches, and typewritten words accumulate as moments in time. The work becomes a souvenir, each moment of making still visible in the end.
Over time, I have distilled my materials and methods to a spare, minimal aesthetic. I use hand-sewn organza to explore the effects of cumulative process in three dimensions. I use hand-drawn line as a basic element to reveal the nature of repetition itself. Dualities between full and empty, convex and concave, right and left, and sensual and cerebral have surfaced as a result. Line is the device that recurs throughout. It is a connector, a separator, a marker of boundaries, a spiraling circularity, and a thread that prevails.
The process orientation of my work clearly originates in my background as a weaver and a software engineer. After repeated attempts to cast this mantle aside, I have come to embrace increasingly structured and rigorous ways of working. I aim to discover the unexpected that lives within the familiar, to transcend what I consciously know. More and more, I find myself making work that is barely there. To repeat anything—as a meditation or a discipline—is to grasp at the infinite.
— Linda Hutchins, 2010