In her works' Tova Lotan (born 1952 ) combines textile and sewing as a part of an engagement whith memory and inter-generational and familial relationship. She fashions what she calls an "inverse aesthetics". The meticulous,comfortable, and gentle aspect of sewing is expectly what does not recieve center stage in her about the works, the spotloght is instead turned to its invers side, which hides the knots,the reinforcement, and the mistakes.
In the series Achilles ' she weaved sketches of houses , drawn by children during graphological diagnose, on four pictures of women's ankles. The gentle stiches form a broken crisscrossed outline of image,and in their fragility, they are merged into the vulnerable image of the ankle.
Irena Gordon