This body of work emerged out of the combined actions of making and thinking. By pairing the repetitive and meditative action of hand stitching with a zoomed-in attention to materials of everyday life, I’m interested in the tactility of presence as a type of spatiality that accompanies the ways we make meaning. I often return to processes that seem to slow down time and transform the space around me into a more tactile, somehow more real, field of being. This is what draws me to kinesthetic learning, the pairing of action and attention. For me, it opens space for imagination, contemplation and discovery. I crave these moments. Through making and thinking I explore both visual and spatial languages around my felt sense of being in the world as a way to put form to formless impressions and extra verbal knowledge.
Elaine Hullihen 