A Page from the #DrawingPapers Archive This page from Drawing Papers 118 features Untitled #66, created by #DrewShiflett in 2012. The 2014 group exhibition Thread Lines featured sixteen artists who engaged in #sewing, #knitting, and #weaving to create a wide-range of works that activate the expressive and conceptual potential of line and illuminate affinities between the mediums of textile and drawing. Multi-generational in scope, Thread Lines brought together those pioneers who first unraveled the distinction between textile and art with a new wave of contemporary practitioners who have inherited and expanded upon their groundbreaking gestures. In Shiflett’s self-titled “constructed drawings,” irregularly torn and cut pieces of handmade paper are pasted together and built up layer by layer. Fine lines in sepia tones are then inscribed onto the puckered surfaces with ink, graphite, Conte crayon, and watercolor. The incised lines- long horizontals and short, vertical ticks- are cross...