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I haven’t been talking a lot about weaving lately, mostly because I’ve been sorta stuck. My latest weaving assignment is a doublecloth pick-up project which describes a specific date and place through the use of imagery and choice of color. Essentially, this project is perfect for me. It’s narrative by nature and has few limitations, which is precisely why I’m using this opportunity to experiment with video projection.
Lately I’ve been dissatisfied with just cloth, so I’ve been trying to figure out ways to make cloth a multimedia/ mixed media experience. While I hesitate to jump directly to technology to solve this issue, I think it’s a good place to start in these early stages of my search for the perfect, specific medium for my oddly specific way of thinking.
The date: August 2008
The scene: A beautiful summer day, storm clouds looming, and three souls trapped in a downpour, surrounded by sand, beach, ocean, sky.
Ideally, the pick up itself will consist of an abstracted, blurred impression of movement. The idea of impression is important to me, as well as the links between the feelings of ephemeral space, static space, opacity, and the illusion of movement.
To enhance these effects, I am in the process of developing a short video projection, originally set to be stop motion animation, but which is now turning into more of an experiment in the effects of layering material and light through still frames played through a loop. The idea is that the projection is both sitting on top of the weaving, quietly and subtly, while also coming out of the weaving and into the viewing space, disrupting the surface of the cloth and distorting the texture of the fabric (much like the natural urgency of rain beating down on warm sand). My hope is that the projection and weaving, when both are finished, will need each other to feel complete. Images of pickup progress and more still shots to come.