Pattern: Redefine explores how material carries memory across transformation. Beginning as prints on fabric, then reworked as paper collages and retranslated into cloth, the work moves between mediums before resolving as an encaustic surface. The piece treats pattern not as decoration, but as a record of process, iteration, and change.
acrylic monoprints on paper, thread, cotton crochet thread, encaustic medium, pan pastel, cradled board
30″ x 40″ x 2″
2025
Pattern: Redefine began as a design for custom textile, but quickly moved beyond its intended role. Initial monoprints were pulled from fabric—capturing the weave, thread, and gesture of the material itself. With paint still remaining on the plate, ghost prints were made on paper, generating a second body of work that both echoed and transformed the original source. These paper prints were collaged, reworked, and translated back into fabric through digital reproduction, creating a loop in which image and material continuously informed one another.
The encaustic piece emerges from this cycle. Layers of wax suspend and obscure the accumulated patterns, softening some areas while sharpening others, allowing traces of each stage to remain visible. Perforated lines cross the surface like displaced seams, interrupting and re-mapping the underlying structure. Three curved red lines act as subtle disruptions—small deviations that shift the rhythm of the whole.
Guided by intuition but grounded in process, the work treats pattern not as decoration, but as a record of iteration—of marks carried forward, altered, and redefined through each translation. This process extends beyond the piece itself, informing custom-printed textiles used in LeMair Handcrafts garments, where the language of the work continues in wearable form.
