Terraced Industry

acrylic collage ink and thread on canvas 40×30 2012 This (for me) tiny piece uses collaged streets from textured oil pastel rubbings of timber, and inked in drawing of terraces in the style of a 16^thCentury Aztec map I love – where no perspective is required. This was the first of the Newtown pieces on which I used the sewing machine. I quite like the way the stitching approximates iron lace.