Candace Hicks

Website: candacehicks.com
Email: candace_hicks@yahoo.com
Instagram: @candacehicksart

Artist’s Statement

Notes for String Theory are hand-embroideries that confront the existential possibilities of the blank page. The size, format, and color palette of notebook paper, they are familiar and warped at the same time. From across the room, they appear as flat, linear designs, but upon closer inspection reveal themselves to be delicately textured. My work has taken literature as its subject for many years, and writing has been central to my artistic practice. I discovered the potential of the blank page as generative when I was experiencing writer’s block. When the stories and commentary that had previously poured out of me ceased, I began drawing versions of a blank sheet of paper in blue thread onto canvas. Where I had previously embroidered the text and illustrations of my artist’s books, I created a void. Not the first or last to confront the dread of the blank page or to bend writer’s block into subject matter, I have named my humble drawings for the theoretical framework uniting all matter and forces at play in the universe.