sheet revisits a motif developed in Threading the Story through the Eye of a Needle from 1974, in which a hand encapsulates an imagined scene seemingly pulled forth—threaded through—the eye of its creator. The hand joins the head explicitly in these images. Leaf's representations and interpretations of thought as “infinite” seem to be her meditations on imagination's expression in the physical world through the artist's corporeality: ruminations on the creative process. The subject of how the mind's contents become manifest through the artist's hand is addressed further in a series of works representing substances that issue forth from the brain in various ways. Making # 2 (2014–2015) Artist made sewing treadle, wire, copper, thread, 11 1/2 x 22 x 19 1/2". Making #2 includes the sewing machine base. It is entirely fabricated and features a dancing figure, delicately rendered as a wire line drawing within a circular arc that vibrates when the treadle is worked or the wheel connected to it is turned. Leaf has made many ingenious devices with triggers or other parts that activate little figures. These beg to be manipulated, evoking the delight of those 19th-century hands-on mechanical animations that seem so magical. Awards Leaf was awarded an Honorary Doctorate, Humane Letters in 1984 from DePaul University and in 1996 from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD). She has received many awards including the Distinguished Artists Awards from the Canadian Council in 1984 and a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant in painting in 1989. Bibliography Enright, Robert, June Leaf. Benteli, 2006. Leaf, June, Record 1974/1975. Göttingen: Steidl, 2010. . Leaf, June, Thought Is Infinite. Göttingen: Steidl, 2016. References External links Oral history interview with June Leaf (2009 Nov. 16 – 2010 May 17), from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution National Endowment for the Arts Fellows 1929 births Illinois Institute of Technology alumni Living people Artists from Chicago Roosevelt University alumni American women painters American contemporary painters 21st-century American women artists Date of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American painters 20th-century American women artists 20th-century American painters