Join Zuriel Waters in his studio to get a glimpse of how his sewn paintings come to life.
Excerpts from the video below:
Waters: This is what I’m working on. I do these on the subway and sometimes I draw them out really well on a drafting paper, but lately I haven't been doing that. I’ve just been going from there to the pattern paper.
Interviewer: You don’t color these in though, so the color comes in later.
Waters: Oh yeah, the color is just painting. Especially this piece, I painted most of this on the wall after it was put together. This is the one I’ll do next I think. Right now I’m just trying to figure this process out.
Interviewer: It’s so interesting to see though, because a lot of them are similar. I mean that in a good way - that you’re doing so many iterations to find that one.
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Waters: Normally, what I'll do is have my drawing, and then I'll create squares that the shapes will fit into. It's just squares; it's completely deconstructed. They're not cut out or anything, and I just have it over here like a colorful grid. Then, I can just work with color. I do all of the construction at the end. But because I didn't know how I was going to construct this one, I didn't know how much seam allowance I would need. I don't know how much space I will need, and I don't really know if it will work or not.
