Farida Hughes: Common Threads

My painting series titled Common Threads incorporates actual interlocked thread remnants and hand-dyed wool. These abstract paintings metaphorically allude to the links, or threads, tying people, groups, and communities together across differences. We often find ourselves faced with addressing the differences between people, via identity, politics, economic stature, family origin, and more. Real entwined thread, or pulled lengths of wool, in the Common Threads paintings are a metaphor for commonly shared experiences bridging these different identity issues. Shared experiences bind people and their histories together in intimately interesting ways. I use these links and metaphoric threads as a means to explore common ground and harmony.