Libby Williamson

Etiquette in Connecticut

40h x 38w inches

2018

Artist Statement

Airborne and returning home to dismantle the homestead, with the grace of a matured perspective, I ponder stubborn adolescent misconceptions. The spooky trek to Laura’s house and the towering sled hill have shrunk. Also diminished is the notion that behind each neighbor’s front door resides certain familial bliss. What reality does hide behind each facade? Reflecting now, I glimpse new sidewalks, realigned fences, fresh clapboard siding, and some weathered paint…the grids of the neighborhood. I, too, am geometry and patchwork. I am old and I am new. And there, around the corner is a new home for mom.

Materials

196 dried and emptied tea bags, repurposed silk scarves, burlap, velvet, satin, Color-Catcher sheets, assorted remnant fabrics, cotton utility cloth, embroidery thread, Mistyfuse, acrylic paint

Techniques

Hand-dying and painting, fused collage, free motion machine appliqué and quilting, hand-embroidery, hand-quilting