Summer Reading
Crystal Cawley
On View in the Poster Case
Artist Statement
Summer Reading is a collection of textile work that grew from the things I am reading this summer. For a long time, what I read has been an impetus for the art I make. I may only remember a few words or a phrase, and may not remember exactly where I read them, but these words find their way in, sometimes as a title, maybe as text combined with or forming an image. I’ve been working with vintage textiles for some time, and I had a notion that printing and stitching words from the range of things I’ve been reading might prove worthwhile.
Reading material (that I can remember)
Epidemics: How to Meet Them, 1919, author unknown
Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo
how to be both, Ali Smith
killing rage, bell hooks
Many articles in print and online
My Heart But Not My Heart, Stephanie Cawley
“Recitatif,” Toni Morrison
Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde
Stuck Rubber Baby, Howard Cruse
Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring, Richard Gergel
Whose Body? Dorothy L. Sayers
Women, Race & Class, Angela Y. Davis
Your Art Will Save Your Life, Beth Pickens
