"Weaving and sewing, as examples of embodied knowledge and as practices that reflect personal and social history, especially as understood by women, have been aspects of Humphrey's work or many years…."
                          Nancy Princenthal: Catalog Essay for Weaving Geographies

My recent project in a geographically remote part of southwestern China  to research the intricate and obsessive embroidered work of the Miao women has influenced my work on both formal and conceptual levels. I am interested in the many ways that form and meaning shift when disparate cultures collide and in using both micro and macrocosmic mapping as a structure from which to work from.

In recent works ,highly magnified locations in the brain believed to contribute to both creativity and obsessive behavior are printed on cloth, and selectively embroidered. allowing both the digital and handmade qualities to be seen. These maps of obsession and creativity are stretched onto a steel structure, which reads as being somewhere between an embroidery hoop and a microscopic lens. Other works translate the same body information onto paper with veils of collaged material,fabric and vellum.

Nene Humphrey