The site continues to evolve (visitors can now toggle
between fabric swatches, and search by colour) and the process can be completed in five clicks, down from 30.
Not exact matches
You can buy your own 45 shade
fabric Color
Swatch which guides you to the best shades of each color for you but, just like an artist's palette, there are literally hundreds of shades and tones
between each one that you can enjoy wearing.
Similarly, there is a difference within the photograph itself
between the physical light captured by the camera and the sourced colors from the
fabric swatches and found images.
A certain material vagueness in pigmented paper pulp thus seems ideal for Stockholder, who has always enjoyed the erasure of distinctions:
between gross matter and art, composition and formlessness, narrative and abstraction, sculpture and painting... «Having arrived at the Mill with digital prints of objects she photographed in her years and studio (bright plastic bowls and containers, a drinking bottle, some gaudy cakes that had seen better times) along with real objects (
fabric swatches, the floor mat) she proceeded to collage and emboss them in stretches of pigmented paper pulp, working in collaboration with Paul Wong.