Red Thread Book

Angela Silver's work is an examination of absence through the residue of language. She creates work that investigates the legibility of text by obscuring and masking the marks from which it is cumulatively formed.

Red Thread Book began as an experiment in value. Silver picked up a 1950s Italian paperback that was worthless. She was interested in reinserting some sense of value and began sewing through each line of text.  She liked the way the accretion of thread resisted the linear qualities of the text, overtaking the surface of the page. The pages act as skin and the vein-like red threads, knot and gather referencing the corporal and its viscera.