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The furniture is nicked, the windows mossy with grime, and the five employees who share the two-room office have to step around a stack of fabric bolts.
"DO you think gingham is waning in popularity?" Brian Anderson, a principal at a private equity firm, asked as he shuffled a stack of fabric swatches in the sitting room of Windsor Custom, a clothing shop decorated in navy blue and beige to resemble the rec room of a Hamptons cottage.
But while fiddling with a stack of fabric scraps she'd collected over the years, unusual humanoid forms began to emerge.
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Lay it out flat on a table, and then accordion-fold it to create a folded stack of fabric.
There is also a painting by John Wesley, a singular artist whose work has nothing obvious to do with nothing, of a faceless man in a bare room; a photograph by James Welling of billowing fabric; and a stack of what look like overexposed Polaroids but are pictures made with ink and watercolor by Allan McCollum.
The paper is dotted with a few objects: a cluster of large stones and charcoal sticks, a stack of blank white paper, eight patterned swaths of fabric arranged as if they swaddled tiny bodies or collections of bones.
There is half a toile on a dressmaking stand in the corner, some fabric swatches and a stack of references that range from a 1950s Balenciaga fashion plate to a 1990s Steven Meisel shoot from Italian Vogue and some drawings by her sister with ideas for socks and shoes and hair.
A woman gracefully straddles a violet-hued bike, its handlebars decorated with a wreath of colorful fabric flowers and a stack of small stereo speakers.
The three-dimensional shape of the fabric is derived from a shape-from-focus analysis of a stack of photographs of the deformed blank.
Everywhere there was a construction of twigs, metal and glass, an arrangement of flowers, of books, a clutch of fabric, a bench where tubes of pigment competed for space with brushes – and, always, a stack of paintings.
The rainbow of fabric in a Sudanese refugee camp, the piles of broken shoes in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a stack of jackets and parkas in a coat drive.
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