When I was in college I loved playing with disappearing fabric. We had a great teacher who wanted us to use and play with everything. Jill something. As I have a sewing machine now and can use disappearing muslin again I wanted to try to make some flimsy women with my found threads. They could be all transparent and hollow. I am leaning into very delicate and ethereal and ghostly things at the moment. I think its reading all these diaries of dead girls. I am currently on Sylvia Plath’s diaries so that probably explains a lot.
I have been looking at inspo as it has been a while and I have loved some of the things I have found. Not all of it is actually made with disappearing muslim but It has the same qualities. I could also make little composite parts if the women can’t be starched enough to stand alone and then sew them onto other things. I could also embroider a diary entry or secrets onto the fabric and then watch them float away on the water.
This is just a google search of a woman I remember loving a long time ago. I love her collections and groupings. They are quite unsettling.
This woman is amazing
https://www.karenmargolisart.com/new-page
https://meredithwoolnough.com.au/past-work
https://www.annawagnerott.com/gallery-2-sculptural-assemblages.html
These are sculptures made with the fabric
https://su-livingontheedge.blogspot.com/2011/10/bowl-like-no-other.html?m=1
I love the holes in these and the idea of revealing, breaking etc. But also the hand is immense.
http://www.feelingstitchy.com/2017/05/stitchy-snippets-silk-webs.html
and then there are random thiNGS i love with no assigned artist…because internet
Chelsea Swan 
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