Each of the colors in this series has been hand-dyed, and the wool comes from sheep that raised at my father’s farm in New Hampshire. The materials and techniques – knowing the sheep from whence the wool came, hand-dyeing the skeins of wool, and then weaving them into tapestry, are often associated with craft and homesteading. I turn these associations on their head by choosing to work with neon colors in abstraction, questioning our desire to categorize and distinguish between the contemporary and traditional.
Additional Artworks
From Katherine Earle
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Jellyfish 055 & 056
Embroidery on plastic
25 x 14 x 0.25 in
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Afterglow II
weaving hand-woven textile
16 x 14 x 1 in
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Afterglow I
weaving hand-woven textile
15 x 13.75 x 1 in
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Jellyfish 058
Embroidery on plastic
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(E)Merging
woven
20 x 14 x 0.5 in
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Blue Ends
weaving hand-woven textile
20 x 12 x 0.5 in
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Jellyfish 049
Embroidery
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Jellyfish 047
Embroidery