Niradhara Lynne Marie is an outsider artist with a visceral visual voice emerging in nyc. these works are a visionary’s imagery of the human body as holy book or sacred text - the temporal covering of the body represented as a quilt, a covering of grace rendered in textile inks, encaustics, wax resists and dyes, organic prints, ink-jet prints, tattooed with needle and threads on salvaged linen fragments in hand & free-motion stitchery. As the ancient practice of story-telling in stitchery is a part of the lexicon of American folk language, women all over the globe as well as men in many tribal communities employ the humble stitch as a visual voice, such as in India, the practice of piecework called Katha – a combining of fragments of cloth to tell a story, document a life passage. My work is in relationship to this story, herstory.
