Brooklyn-based artist Zuriel Waters' work in "Jitterbug Waltz" spans over two years and is constructed entirely from sewn fabric and acrylic paint. There is no wooden armature, and each piece is very flat. Small dress pins hold the work to the wall via eye hooks, which are sewn into the topstitch on the reverse side.
Waters engineers each piece of art to fold up for storage to accommodate the artist's studio environment. Each iteration is carefully planned to fit inside a box that holds about a year's worth of finished pieces. They are designed to give the maximum amount of wall space with the minimum amount of storage.
Each piece is created one after the other, never simultaneously, in an iterative process that retains traces of the time of year as well as the artist's temporal psychological condition. Because they are so rooted in seasonality, they can be thought of as a form of fashion design, trawling the artist's neighborhood for color information from daily walks. In this way, the work also participates in a constructivist reduction of the urban environment, a kind of futurist landscape painting.
