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Spinning Plastic Trash. |
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"Trash Weave #1" Materials: Salvaged hand spun and woven American and Peruvian trash.
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"Trash Weave #1" detail
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"Chullu" Materials: Salvaged hand spun and knitted American and Peruvian trash.
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2009 |
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Trash Weave #3 2009 |
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Tire / Twine 2009 |
"Trash Loom #2" Materials: Salvaged materials from Royal Mill, West Warwick, RI.
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"Trash Loom #2" - Detail. |
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Trash Loom #1 Materials: Salvaged materials from Royal Mill, West Warwick, RI.
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Trash Loom #1, Detail |
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"Offloom" Materials: Salvaged bolt cloth and silkscreened images from Royal Mill, RI. Originaly woven on Trash Loom #1, in the Slater Mill Visitors Center aprox. 6' x 2'.5", 2007 Commisioned for Struever Bros. Eckless & Rouse. |
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"Offloom", Detail |
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TRADITIONAL AYMARA WEAVING Andean hand weaving has been through thousands of years of evolution, it was a human answer to specific environmental circumstance. |
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High Altiplano region where it developed is predominantly in Peru and Bolivia.
It was in this region that millennial weaving traditions were developed by untold numbers of skilled hands over thousands of years. |
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It has become an answer to my environmental circumstance, the root to my creative expression. As an adolescent, the weaving |
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The people Indigenous to this area survived in their cold highland environment by domesticating the South American camuloids, the Llama and Alpaca, along with their smaller relatives, the Vicuña and Guanaco. These animals’ wool is now revered the world over for the fine fiber and cloth it produces. |
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The "Community" structure is an important weaving of its own that continues in perpetuity. |
