Ann-Marie LeQuesne
Installations
1994-1997 - A Series of Installations in Central London

No Distance
Between 1994 and 1997 I made a series of large, site-specific installations in Central London. All of them used silhouettes, derived from photographs. The first, MODA, was a response to my mother’s death, a search for memories of my time with her. I photographed a small Japanese doll in a kimono that I had been given by her as a child. I did not remember being given the doll, but in the endless pattern cutting this work entailed I began to remember another type of pattern cutting – for dressmaking, and the memory of being taught to sew by my mother. More..