Sew Tactile (Please Touch My Art): Rosanna Lynne Welter

"I am inspired by the world I inhabit and my perception of it.  I am just as likely to be captured by the shape and pattern of cracks in asphalt as I am by the glory of nature. People do think I am a bit nuts photographing a parking lot on my hands and knees, and maybe they are right. But I carry on, capturing the beauty or whimsy I see and translating it to fabric.  I completely lose myself while manipulating fabric by adding color, taking color away, molding it to create shapes, and by adding texture through thread and raw edges. There is a kind of alchemy in taking a two dimensional medium and moving it out, away from the wall, in transforming the fabric surface, in adding stitched texture to enhance the richness or depth of a design, in choosing to not clip strings or adding yet more dangling threads, and in leaving edges raw and letting them—even encouraging them—to ravel. ​

Cloth is such a personal and intimate thing; it covers us day and night. And maybe because fabric is so comforting and warm against our skin, textile art is the perfect medium to invite, perhaps even compel, a stolen touch. And that, too, is part of the medium’s magic. If I could be granted one art wish, it would be that everyone who sees my work would be allowed to touch it, for I think that intimacy would surely connect us. We as humans are born to touch—the world around us and each other." Rosanna Lynne Welter

Reception: November 17, 2023 from 6 - 8pm

Rosanna Lynne Welter - Discharge Nine Patch

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