HAND SEWN MASKS by Kathrine Page

Tillman is a photographer living and working in Baltimore. She is known for her black and white images of “underground scenes and fringe personalities.” Her portfolio includes the bustling street scenes of New York City, but Venice stole her heart. In 2001, she created the series, Venice is a Dream: A Childhood Memory. These stunning images of interiors, with a sophisticated vantage point, reveal tableaus of light streaming through sweeping draperies on the floor-to-ceiling windows of the 18th century Ca’Rezzonico Museum. I designed this black and white mask with an abstract, vertical orientation to imply the window drapery Tillman captured in her Venice series. I curated three from her series into the exhibition, Focal Points: Women Advancing the Aperture at The Delaware Contemporary, February 2020. https://www.decontemporary.org/focal-points

MATERIALS: 100% cotton, polyester ribbon and trimming, buttons, Pellon interfacing.