
Displaced (Detail) , 2016, fabric bas-relief, 7” x 10” x 1”. Photograph by Rob Goldsborough.
The genius of Salley Mavor’s meticulously realized imaginative worlds is just what we need right now. Using needle and thread, as she has since childhood, “I stitch during every possible moment”, her hands have taught her how to proceed to create three-dimensional mise en scenes (she calls them fabric bas-reliefs) of alternative realities which are part theater, part dollhouse, part folklore and folk art, and always completely original — unfolding, she said, magically, like visions…