Then, within a year, she started cutting the clothes up, transforming them into sculptures and the collages she called "fabric drawings".
Taking place in Hauser & Wirth's new Savile Row space, it consists of 70 "fabric drawings", intimate, small-scale works made from domestic items such as napkins, buttons and scraps of clothes, made between 2002 and 2008.
Her painful self-exposure wouldn't count for much if it weren't for her artistic drive, and the wish – not always succesfully fulfilled – to transform her experience into films, appliqued fabrics, drawings, paintings, installations, poems and stories.
Her lovely collages of fabric swatches, drawings and photographs of flowers, animals and interiors are composed not by theme, as one might expect, but according to her mood -- often wistful shading to melancholy -- at the moment she reaches for the glue stick.
Scattered along the walls, paintings on various fabrics and drawings skitter about stylistically, blending illustration, Symbolism, Neue Sachlichkeit and whatnot.
The collection includes books, embroideries, tapestries, fabrics, wallpapers, drawings & sketches, furniture and stained glass, and forms the focus of two published works (produced to accompany special exhibitions).
The exhibit will occupy 2½ floors of the museum in Cleveland, and an associated exhibit at the museum's library and archives nearby will examine Stones tour productions from 1975 to 1981 with set lists, photos, stage drawings, fabric samples and other items.
Here are some decoration ideas: stickers, pictures, marker drawings, fabric, and paint.
At his one-room apartment, a fifth-floor walk-up on Sullivan Street in the West Village, he pored over drawings and fabric swatches.
Toile de Jouy, the classic 18th-century French fabric printed primarily with drawings of bucolic scenes, is turning up on sheets, pillow cases, duvet covers -- even babies' bedding.
She then embroiders the drawings onto fabric, stitching them into pillows that she fills with stuffing.
