David Chatt
North Carolina
Artist Statement Submitted 2014
I am fifty three years old, 6’ 5” tall and Caucasian. I have spent all of my adult life sewing tiny glass beads, one to the next. Unexpected work by unexpected hands.I engage images that say something true and that move me, the maker, forward in some way. My work tells of the odd world I inhabit, a place more interesting than comfortable. My best work is equal parts personal and universal, craftsmanship and concept. Recently, I have used only white beads. I am fascinated by the potential this offers. An object covered in a matrix of fine needle-work and colorless glass is now less that object, and more the place where that object once was. Like a memory held in time and space. Each bead and the thread that binds it is a mark and a reflection of a moment. The accumulation of these marks becomes a meditation.
