In Isolation, the hand is an anonymous character – becoming either a ‘working’ or ‘creative’ storyteller. The ‘working hand’ is a character that endures the task of building, constructing or assembling our everyday architectural surroundings, while the ‘creative hand’ makes, invents, and produces; decorating our everyday surroundings, often as a form of internal or emotional expression. The two are very different, but what they both have in common is the ability to bring forth a sense of security or comfort, either objectively or subjectively.

Selvedges Redefined presents negatives photographed, while researching the history in Lviv.  Each image captures a segment of a building with a dark shadow cast on it from a neighboring structure– the shadows consume the building in darkness emphasizing the competitive nature of the ‘working hand’, which constructs physical security, leaving it’s industrial finger-print– as its mark.  Inspired by traditional Ukrainian Embroidery, the negatives are manually cross-stitched together emphasizing tradition, ritual, and practice. Within the shadows are two neighboring Khatas–traditional Ukrainian cottages–  The work expresses Ukrainian heritage–past, present, and future–decoratively and architecturally speaking, while emphasizing the “creative” hand’s ability to produce a sense of stability and comfortability.

Clip from over twelve hours of cross-stitching film negatives together before scanning negatives into a large scale print.