Susan Granfors (website) creates embroidered works using a free-motion machine embroidery technique. Working on a versatile fabric base, she builds organic structures in thread that are later released from their ground, allowing the forms to exist independently.
Her work ranges from densely stitched surfaces to open, lace-like constructions, often extending into three-dimensional sculptural forms or generating entirely new textile structures.
Framed pieces are suspended to emphasize depth, inviting viewers to engage with the shifting shadows and spatial play created by the work.
Artist's Statement
I am obsessed with the reality of a single thread that—without question and with our combined strength—holds us all together. I experience this in my day to day living and demonstrate it in my artwork.
I am drawn to fiber—painting on it, weaving it, cutting it up and putting it back together, creating wet-felted wool fabrics and most recently, with great joy, creating organic sculptural embroidered art.
It’s just thread.
This one thread is very powerful. It joins us but also defines the open space where we can be ourselves while we support one another.