Woven, Weft Cut Textiles & Hand Cut Jacquards
Visions of Gerard (for Jack Kerouac), #3
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's birthday in 2022 with a new cutting of "Visions of Gerard (for Jack Kerouac)" for my solo exhibition at the Kellner Gallery.
Jacquard woven, cut and manipulated, wool, linen, rayon and metallic thread.
This work is part of a series exploring the relationship between text and textiles or weaving and words, based on novels and short stories with transformation, beauty, and transcendence as one of their emotional themes.
The title of this piece is based on the novel by Jack Kerouac, about Lowell, Massachusetts and the scenes and sensations of his childhood and the short, beautiful life of his brother. I was trying to capture the slants of the roofs of the mills, the fog, the mist, the smoke Kerouac describes, as well as, trying to capture a low level of light.
The novel is both beautiful and unsettling. So, the angle in my piece is critical to the work. Using Jacquard weaving allowed me to create a slow angle, with a repeat of 180 inches. The cutting of the floats add to the veiling and misty qualities. In many of my Jacquard digital weavings the weft in the cloth is designed to be cut and manipulated.
This textile was designed with unlimited size dimensions. A piece like will be doing a new cutting of "Visions of Gerard for Jack Kerouac" can be woven the length of an industrial warp, because the piece is cut after weaving, there are almost unlimited possibilities for width and variety in surface.
Visions of Gerard (for Jack Kerouac), #1, Below and detail
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's birthday in 2022 with a new cutting of "Visions of Gerard (for Jack Kerouac)" for my solo exhibition at the Kellner Gallery.
Jacquard woven, cut and manipulated, wool, linen, rayon and metallic thread.
This work is part of a series exploring the relationship between text and textiles or weaving and words, based on novels and short stories with transformation, beauty, and transcendence as one of their emotional themes.
The title of this piece is based on the novel by Jack Kerouac, about Lowell, Massachusetts and the scenes and sensations of his childhood and the short, beautiful life of his brother. I was trying to capture the slants of the roofs of the mills, the fog, the mist, the smoke Kerouac describes, as well as, trying to capture a low level of light.
The novel is both beautiful and unsettling. So, the angle in my piece is critical to the work. Using Jacquard weaving allowed me to create a slow angle, with a repeat of 180 inches. The cutting of the floats add to the veiling and misty qualities. In many of my Jacquard digital weavings the weft in the cloth is designed to be cut and manipulated.
This textile was designed with unlimited size dimensions. A piece like will be doing a new cutting of "Visions of Gerard for Jack Kerouac" can be woven the length of an industrial warp, because the piece is cut after weaving, there are almost unlimited possibilities for width and variety in surface.
Visions of Gerard (for Jack Kerouac), #1, Below and detail
Swan Point #2, above
Collection-Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase
Sow
Jacquard woven, cut and manipulated, wool, recycled polyester, linen, polylactic acid fiber, nylon.
The second series of Jacquard cloths is called “Sow,” it is the first textile where the technique of cut floats was employed. The Van Gogh drawings I saw at the Kroller–Muller Museum in the Netherlands informed my own drawings that became the source for the work. The first cloth has been clipped and shorn as if the growth of threads is a weed like substance, unwanted, pulled and haphazard.
Sow 1, above
Sow 2, below
Below- hand cutting of Sow.
Swan Point
Jacquard woven, cut and manipulated, recycled vinyl coated polyester, wool, linen and cotton.
Swan Point, Small version, Full view, unflocked (above)
Swan Point #4, Full views & details, flocked (below)
Komako 1, Detail below
Jacquard woven, cut and manipulated, recycled polyester, wool, nylon, linen and retro reflective glass fiber
Komako 1
The title of this piece and inspiration is from a novel by Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country.
I wanted to create a piece that mimics the transformation of the central character in the novel. The textiles transformation come from three changes; yarn color, material and hanging direction.
the woven structure is identical in both of the iterations.
Komako 2 -Below
