![A book of cloth pages embroider to look like notebook paper. The Roman numeral IV and the words "Common Threads" are center in black and green thread.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-A_tam2YfofoLubQ7zLCmiNz_qnLbb9tZqd0H7oHEdf460VX41e2QC26-Cr3NWBq_4s18DUp7lrNY89pwtpYAZ0PdEPgb3c2SRMgVc2s4176vJlxZHRCcZqLAXJvfiXrCmazPWNPCoA/s200/commonThreads.jpg)
Described as a self-consciously hand-made object, "Common Threads" by Candace Hicks is a hand-embroidered canvas book that some have also described as a sculpture.
Because it is shaped like a book, (or our expectations of a book, anyway), and because it has words on a "page," I am still left wondering about its "bookness." The narrative, as such, captures daily events as they emerge and get "jotted" down, (well, sewn in, actually).
"Her choice of the book as a principle medium is due to the phenomenon of the book as authoritative. Books provide an arena in which fiction can be accepted as fact and observations can take on a mythic narrative quality." -- Booklyn Artists Alliance
![A cover page embroidered to resemble a red composition notebook.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivsaqMZkvYbXnbwLcrYdhA1II29AhFjaA1JhHJxlj0kFmXNtOiMRjKJE47T0FTtikq-wvUadNL17aV6k-k8XVlg1aGdlx6NTmyUTUtJnHHcm17GfXc62YRhXlEfhqtuH85XMG2DE9H8Q/s200/composition.jpg)
Oh, this is Common Threads IV. The artist is still considering how and to what extent a series will emerge.
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