"Finding The Way" Performance Yardage - Prayer Cloth

The following images are taken of my four yards of cloth, printed at the Fabric Workshop and Museum as a Fall 2012 Apprentice. The imagery within the cloth is derived from rosaries, which I scanned and then drew on paper. After drawing the images of these rosaries, I assembled and layered them on a light table and from there exposed my image onto a silkscreen.
The result is four yards of layered rosary fabric entitled "Finding The Way".

"Finding The Way" is both representational of personal religious exploration and the literal visual translation of the rosaries winding and creating paths within the fabric.
Throughout this exploration and printing process I have kept track of the number of times I have scanned, drawn, and printed these rosaries (a sum of over 600 rosaries). As an artist performance, I have been praying the entire rosary for every rosary I have printed. This process, while extensive and tiring is one that I hope will help me find clarity in my own personal religious paths.

Having not grown up within the Catholic Faith, I find the repetition of the rosary beads along with the prayers associated with them to be quite interesting. Through this and other projects I hope to discover the ways in which, historically, people of many faiths use tradition and repetition in their lives to help them navigate their own lives.

Original Mylar Drawings of Scanned Rosaries 

Final Yardage "Finding The Way" On Print Tables at The Fabric Workshop and Museum

Color Print on Raw Silk - Intended for a series of smaller prayer cloth embroideries