Lorna Brown

Time/Bomb

2017
Embroidery on Cotton
11x14"

Time/Bomb commemorates two of the early icons created by Susan Ware, a young sculptor who was invited to create graphics and fonts for Apple in the early 1980’s. She credits learning needlepoint embroidery from her mother as the visual framework for the development of a suite of now legendary icons and fonts named after cities such as Chicago, Geneva, Monaco and New York.

Time/Bomb is one of a series of works exploring the transitional space between analog and digital representation, and the technologies and methods that have become obsolete during the artist’s lifetime, such as Carets, strike-outs, underlines, circles and dots , a series of paintings that commemorate the red pen marks previously used to edit text by hand. The relation of abstraction, diagrammatic representation, architecture and bodily experience can be found in works that use old and new technologies such as embroidered versions of QR codes and digital graphs.