I'm late, I'm late! Oh dear, will I ever learn...

Before hand, I apologize Angie, for it seems that I was not well prepared...should have taken a picture of your image, but I am giving it a go.

So to begin, I recall you working on your print and being curious to know what you were going to do with all those small copper plates you were preparing some past day in the studio.

And to begin, Angie's print consists of several small prints that come together to form a self-portrait. Each individual print is sewn to another print in order to form one whole. In other words, a sort of grid puzzle. She is basically piecing together pieces of herself. In this image she is holding a needle with thread between her fingers that is directed toward the viewer. She seems to be in the act of sewing the print together. It almost appears as if Angie were looking into a mirror and the viewer were on the other side of the mirror. You have the illusion of being on the inside of the printed image, while looking at the creator while she works.

Before I go any further, I already wonder and question why she is piecing herself together in this manner. Why the need to cut the pieces in order to sew them back together? What is Angie trying to say with this? Is there a need to cut in order to reunite? I also wonder if the number of pieces have a significance. Did she purposefully decide the number of pieces that would form the whole? Is this a representation of her life?

I think it might have been interesting if Angie would have left the pieces out of place. If she would have sewn the grid back together out of sorts. Why the need to disassemble in order to bring back the same way? Why not dismantle and reunite differently? But then again, can anything be reunited in the exact same manner as before? Probably not. Perhaps, that is why there is the need to have the thread. The thread in itself represents a change, and no matter how you try, the pieces will never exactly come together in the same way, they are forever changed.

I enjoy Angie's piece and it's ability to make me ask questions and feel that it has been successful in this manner. However, I don't have answers, and I prefer not to impose my self-centered thoughts onto Angie's print. Nor do I wish to compare her prints to others. All I can say, is that I now have many questions, and want to seek my own answers, and perhaps Angie is seeking her own answers, too.