Alice Dillon

USING REPETITION TO ILLUSTRATE THE ANDROGYNY OF WORDS OF THIS YEAR

In These Uncertain Times, 2020, embroidery on canvas // Alice Dillon

The sudden plunge into collective trauma and disillusionment in 2020 was accompanied by the emergence of a new vocabulary. That vocabulary was and continues to be used over and over to politely and vaguely reference issues that run deep and affect many. Each piece in this fiber art series is a note ripped from an imaginary 2020 (turned 2021) notebook, which includes reminders of euphemisms, understatements, and circular conversations that we expect each other to use day-to-day. The repetition of text and form in each piece aims to mirror the way that days and conversations have echoed one another in past months.

Alice Dillon is a fiber artist from Worcester, Massachusetts. Her roots in fiber art trace back to receiving a sewing machine as a child, which she used to create small projects. Alice began actively identifying as an artist in college when she taught herself how to embroider. Her embroidered works range in style from highly detailed to cleanly linear. She has recently become interested in repeated linear imagery that brings a modern androgyny to a classically feminine medium.

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