Emily is back with another GUEST POST…
Ann Hamilton’s installation “The Event of a Thread,” at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, was a monumental, ephemeral and nostalgic, temporary work of art. I’ve experienced this piece through the images captured by some of my closest friends. Their renderings of Hamilton’s work are the images framed below. In Hamilton’s own words:
“I can remember the feeling of swinging—how hard we would work for those split seconds, flung at furthest extension, just before the inevitable downward and backward pull, when we felt momentarily free of gravity, a little hiccup of suspension when our hands loosened on the chain and our torsos raised off the seat. We were sailing, so inside the motion—time stopped—and then suddenly rushed again toward us. We would line up on the playground and try to touch the sky, alone together.”
Learn more? Take a look at this video on the installation…The Event of a Thread
Photos by: Antony, Emily, Gabrielle and Kelley
Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across Canada and is in private collections around the world. She has won numerous awards, including two first place prizes in the CQA National Juried Quilt Show, one for her machine quilting for “Stone Weather”, and one for her piecing in “Fire in the Cabin – PMS and the Full Moon”. Maggie has sold/sells her original textile art from her studio, galleries, museums, during the Elora-Fergus Studio Tour, Fair November, Creativ Festival, Silo Weavery, and the One of a Kind Show. She also sells her own photo greeting cards, hand-painted fabrics and threads and creates commissioned pieces for public and personal spaces.