The work was made for the exhibition The Scalloped Edge inGaleria dos Prazeres in 2016. In this piece the sea doesn’t appearto be quiet but the female figure seems to be floating in a verypeaceful and relaxed way. Her body looks as though it is part of thewater that surrounds her. In a way the water and the female figureare made of the same material, not the thread, but the atoms. Shelooks like she is following the current of the sea and the waves, asin the traditional medieval story of the lovers Ana d’Arfet and RobertMachin, whose boat was marooned on Madeira island, when theyran away from England, to live out their forbidden love. The bodyof this female figure can also be an island, a floating island, a limbslowly separating from the main European continent, as part of therecent political currents in Britain. Apart from these real and fictionconnections, there is the other obvious link between this piece andthe two islands of Madeira and Great Britain, through embroideryitself. It is with thread that Kettle connects the physical and theimaginary points of both to draw a new bridge between the twoplaces and their embroidery art traditions.Hugo OlimCuratorGaleria dos Prazeres, Madeira