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Stitches on the Path to Here: Ingrid Restemayer
Ingrid Restemayer is a fiber artist and printmaker originally from North Dakota now based in Minneapolis, MN.
My work is made up of recognizable imagery in the form of intricate etchings on handmade papers, successively collaged and punctuated by hand-embroidery.
The landscape in the Northern plains is a never-ending steady horizon. In such an environment one learns to find excitement and inquiry in the slightest variation. For many months of the year the landscape is frozen -- the only interruption to low snow drifts being the regular linear patterns of the surrounding farmland. Her continual lines of running stitches and fields of French knots were born out of inspiration from those windblown spaces. Though fiber is not typically a minimalist medium, my work emulates this peaceful beauty in its monotony while also a conveying calmness through repetition. At times her work has a hint of storytelling with the use of intaglio images as pseudo-illustrations for a kind of narrative when paired with code-like paragraph shapes formed from hand-embroidery.
Ingrid stitches by hand, using needle and thread – not by machine. This is the age of instant electronic communication, the age of getting anything instantly via the internet downloads & smartphone. Sustainable tactics in art creation, things made by the human hand often have the power to promote further human interaction. I want my work to remind society that non-mechanized art and imagery is still achievable and still experiential.
