Tag Archives for weaving
Burgos Tapestry Restoration
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The News From Here: The 2013 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art
Translator This past weekend I attended the opening of The News From Here: The 2013 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art at the AGA in Edmonton. According to guest-curator Nancy Tousley, Alberta artists, working in the second decade of the 21st … Continue reading
Noise 120421
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Slow progress…
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Tangled
TranslatorLast week I started weaving the third panel in the Noise series (the last on this warp). Until now, the weaving has been relatively easy, if slow due to the fineness of the threads. Although I anticipated some difficulty with … Continue reading
Tapestry at the Alberta Craft Council
Translator Throughout my career as an artist I have explored ideas that reference my experience of the world. To do this I have chosen to work almost exclusively with the process of woven tapestry. I find Tapestry to be a … Continue reading
Strange loops
Translator I am now weaving the second panel in the Noise 1207 series with a dark brown silk and ink-stained hemp. The image softly emerging from the chaos of interlacing thread is a detail of one of the ink drawings … Continue reading
On the loom…
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Weft for Noise 1207
Translator I have finished staining the hemp and tied-ramie weft threads for Noise 1207. The results on the threads are dramatic and I think that they will work well with the organic randomized structure I have developed for these three … Continue reading
Sumi-e threads
Translator This week, I am applying sumi ink to hemp weft threads for a series of three panels to be woven on a Jacquard loom. This work is a continuation of my Noise series investigating structure/pattern iterations composed using random … Continue reading