Portfolio Vol 24: Piper Shepard (USA) Angela A. Adams and William Easton Published by Telos Arts "Shepard patiently brings her sizeable works into being through the repetitive processes of sewing, cutting, printing, etching and dyeing"...A.A. Adams. "Piper Shepard's work is refined, luxurious and perhaps a bit treacherous. She creates simple and elegant spaces which embody surreptitious dualities and where surface is an enticing but deceptive layer ...Her lace-like structures may be skin or bone, inside and outside seem interchangeable. Nature is tamed by culture as the organic form of a rose is domesticated by pattern, while fragility and solidity appear to be cut from the same cloth. Small monuments to obsessive detail, her work insists on time, process, and history, taking the handmade to an extreme. The delicate becomes vast and suggests the material form of space, perseverance and time." [Laura Burns] The Textile Directory Bookstore postal charges: UK 1 book = £2.50 2 books = £4.50 3 books = £7.00 4 books or more = £9.00 Overseas 1 book = £6.00 2 books = £10.00 3 books = £14.00 4 books or more = £18.00 Price: £12.50