STATEMENT OF WORK

My creative research in weaving features architecture with symbolic flowers, laurels, and cornucopias symbolic motifs that culturally represent wealth, prestige, and power. I weave in a banner scale that relates to human scale in architecture. The woven banners interface and obstruct. Weave structures are designed to visually constitute a digital image that I manipulate and repeat. I am scratching the soft and patterned surface of cloth, the digital image, and architecture. Marking with bleach, marker, and water and oil-based paint, materials often used to clean and preserve or destroy and vandalize the surface of architecture. I hand weave on a Thread Controller 2 (TC2) digital Jacquard loom. The loom operates, in many ways, the same way all looms have operated since ancient time. The warp is tensioned through the loom and the weft is passed back and forth, by hand, using a shuttle. The loom uses the binary system principle to all woven structure and digital images.

In my creative research in hand papermaking I focus on logomania or using brand trademarks as the primary visual of an accessory or garment which has become highly desirable to consumers. Trademarks including color, symbol and design signal a company’s identity and distinguish value. Individuals become walking advertisements in logo covered cloth. In the series of handmade paper pieces entitled “LOGOMANIA” I take freely and reflect on the symbolism of high-end fashion houses.