[8] Bloom has often compared herself, and the viewer of her work, to a 'detective'[9] who is confronted with disparate clues and is asked to form some kind of visual narrative.
[3] Additionally, Bloom states in an artist's statement that her "fascination is with the relationships between objects or images—and the meanings implicit in their placement and combination.
"[3]Bloom's use of shadows, traces, Braille, broken objects, partially-obstructed images,[10] watermarks, and micro-images all demonstrate an ongoing interest in visualizing the fragile workings of memory, the invisible, the ephemeral, and the absent.
[9] These “aesthetic underdogs, sheltered under Bloom’s wing [...] provide yet another lens for looking at how we seek value in objects and why.”[8] “During the last year, I produced and exhibited a work titled The Weather...
The production of the carpets was a complex one, and it was not easy to find a manufacturer able to accurately produce the intricate patterns of raised dots.