Slow Line Falling. 2020

Embroidery.

Slow line Falling measures 250 x 200 cm, and hangs freely from the wall.

Black stitch on black cotton on a family heirloom : a 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 the 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.