DRAPED EARTH

Karen’s research on dressing and the body took her to Japan on a fellowship in 2006 to study the kimono and yuzen dyeing techniques, which led to her Floating World series. Simultaneously, a fortuitous encounter with fishing nets, together with the development of a series of reclining figures in which the drapery looked like topography of the natural environment, grew into a branch of research that inspired a new body of work based on the idea of landscape, Draped Earth.