Highways and Rest Stops

images... I keep seeing different iterations of lace.
A fascinating characteristic of lace are the great voids. Lace is not simply about pattern and repeat. Pattern is dumb in a way. It doesn't trust you to "get it" or "keep it" so it establishes a truth in easily found repetition. There is certainly pattern and repeat in lace but it occurs differently. You think you understand it but then it starts to get sparse. It's a bit like driving on a superhighway. You know there will be other places to stop, other restaurants, gas stations, small towns but then you are out on that long strand of highway with no confirmation that the pattern will repeat. Just when you think you have lost it you pick up the pattern again and there is the sign for the rest stop. It is pattern connected by possibility. There is assurance in pattern, but lace is always a risk.


Hy