Contributor postal service past times Lisa Solomon
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| stemma installation persuasion III 2006-07 kukui nuts, thread bell jar |
wendy kawabata together with i were inward a demonstrate together inward 2006 called the shout out for of loose ends at mira costa college inward oceanside [southern california]. if you lot are curious you lot tin encounter installation shots from the show
here.
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| stemma, kukui nuts, thread, bell jars, 2007 |
for many reasons our locomote together with lives felt synergistic. i was a 1/2 japanese adult woman amongst a non-asian name. she was a non-asian adult woman who married a japanese american together with took his name.
nosotros both made roughly tiny thread balls [her version pictured above].
nosotros both were interested inward domestic practices turned into "fine art" practices.
i looked at her locomote together with wished that i made it.
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| The Gentleman, needle perforations through paper, 30” x 22”, 2010 |
i dear her serial of drawings made from pivot pricks. subtly violent... she picks imagery that is actually lovely together with speaks well-nigh colonialism, trying to figure out where you lot come upwardly from - inward essence what is a feel of place.
she lives inward hawaii where cultures intersect together with merge inward ways that don't occur inward other places inward the basis i think.
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| Withdrawn from Circulation (detail), installation at Corban Estate Art Centre, 2010 |
she's also a thinker together with engrossed inward a locomote ethic that i admire. books. released from their duty. turned into a beautiful grouping - constellation like. repurposed. renewed. the undesirable together with discarded refashioned into beauty.
of course of teaching you lot know past times straightaway i'm a sucker for repetition. together with i dear seeing the mitt [but also fooled. her mitt is together with hence steady together with hence "perfect" that you lot know it's at work, but non inward an obvious way].
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| Untitled (Acts series, II), gouache & colored pencil on paper, 30” x 22”, 2011 |
these newer drawings are specially compelling to me. uncomplicated - even together with hence technically masterful. i dear the thought of taking something together with hence tactile [yarn/thread] together with recreating it apartment - inward colored pencil. together with hence wrong. together with hence painstaking. only hold off at the detail....
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| Untitled (Acts series, II) DETAIL, gouache & colored pencil on paper, 30” x 22”, 2011 |
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| Study, gouache & colored pencil on paper, 6” x 6”, 2011 |
together with this. yarn. but also a formal carmine line. i know what this looks similar on my desk. i dear taking it from it's useful, utilitarian role - removing it from whatever context. making yarn butt upwardly against fine art. i oftentimes hold off downward at a pile of thread tails or yard that i shout out for to untangle together with mean value it's beautiful. wendy's locomote alone makes that impulse clearer. purer.
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| Study, gouache & colored pencil on paper, 6” x 6”, 2011 |
together with hence this is the i i want. [although i'd accept the carmine yarn slice inward a mo too]. did you lot always brand those potholders on a tiny loom? this reminds me of that - a to a greater extent than sophisticated, amend color coordinated version. if you lot hold off downward at your vesture - actually hold off - you'll encounter this knit pattern. i dear how she pays attending to it. makes me pay attending to it. gives me a microscopic view.
wendy only latterly received a
pollock krasner grant. i can't hold off to encounter what comes out of her studio next.
follow my collection equally it grows on
pinterest. until side past times side time....
