Karen Reimer’s new embroidery work continues her practice of creating intricate but inefficient simulations of everyday ephemera.
Previously, Reimer’s labor-intensive production of the embroidered copy made the original material partially or completely illegible and transferred the specific meaning of the original into an ambiguous visual pattern. In Boundary Troubles, she continues her investigation by meticulously attempting to recreate the mass produced and seemingly insignificant details of the world, attempts that eventually add up to a blurry sense of the larger relationships that entail there.
