kccweaves

my journey, as a weaver, from "AH" to "KA", on the eternal path we call "Life"

Saturday, December 30, 2017

Day and Night and Artemisia

Greetings during these remaining days of 2017!
Now we are experiencing the subtle shift which the equinox brings to us, from dark to light.
When I was designing this work, however, we were in the waning days of late autumn, as night overtakes day.
Listening to the quiet voices of the chaparral, I heard echoes of my own voice amidst the call of the artemisia (aka California sagebrush).
I gathered the last of the blooms, now mostly seed pods, and wove them into yarns of wool and cotton, using a tapestry technique know as “clasping”: two shuttles, one entering each side of the shed and wrapping around each other within the shed, in this instance forming a line of dark and light.  The mix of blue yarns in the warp represent rain — as my friend Tim so aptly pointed out when he saw the piece.
It’s on display at 2Create Gallery, at the east end of Main Street in Ramona.  17” x 24”   $332


on the east end of Main Street, in my home town of Ramona.          17” x24”          $332

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