Britta Fluevog: handwoven

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Easter Tree

Installed at GCBC for the Easter Period. The idea was from the Stump of Jesse that had adorned the church during the christmas season.

This piece is dealing with industrial and domestic spheres. It takes weaving out of the feminine, the domestic environment and brings it into the masculine and industrial world. It takes something that is soft, nurturing and personal and turns it into something hard, aloof, unapproachable and massive. It also takes something industrial, that is hard, not aesthetically thought of as beautiful and that is usually used with machines and turning it into something full of personality, handmade and softened. The weave structure is important to this piece as waffle weaves are used to create a 3-d structure. When the waffle weave is used for aesthetical purposes, often thicker yarn is used at the front and thinner yarn is used at the back to create further depth. Metal cable and chain is deal for this structure was is accentuates the depth and uses the thickness to its best advantage.

The hand-loom becomes apart of the final product

The work was held together with zap straps (cable tie) so allow for assemblage. These were kept as apart of the final artwork.

Searching for Sqaure

This was one of my first weavings, the second, I believe. It is also the first weaving to transcend the loom. The piece was created using a tri-warp system. My first weaving showed my interest in alternate materials and my second an interest in the functional aspects of the loom and breaking standard functional principals. I had a desire to make the weaving 3D, I am a 3D person, it is how my mind works and a process I find satisfying. I am also radical non-conventionalist, so simply staying in the warp was absurd. This piece was about learning, how to treadle, how to make a pattern, how to find a pattern, how to follow the limits, how to break the limits, but mostly simply how weaving worked, in and out, what could, would work and how it would all look.

Installation Weave: Loom

Front View
the weave structure is 6' x 6' x 8'
the plates sit at 92' high
ceilings in photo are 22'

Britta Fluevog created the piece Loom when she had to leave her real loom behind her. It was created as a commemoration to her newfound love of weaving and the relationship with her loom that bloomed from that. It is a triumph of art and the act of creation and also a self-portrait. The large size of the loom, made her have t o be intimate with her loom physically, in order for her to use it. The intimacy created a strong bond between her and her loom that she had never known before with prior art tools. Her piece Loom required the same intimacy and closeness to create. The colours are strong and bold, full of the joy of life. The materials are varied, linen, sisal, jute, tinsel, & wool, among other things. They are recycled, ready made, hand spun, natural dyed and reclaimed. The piece is full of contrasts, the textures that make one want to touch and the inability to touch; the triumphant colours and the pathos filled drooping; the richness of the weaving and the quiet void of the fishing wire. It follows the philosophy of Georg Simmel, using uniqueness to try to vanquish the void that consumerist society creates. It also addresses the gap of the production and consumption, where a normal loom is a curiosity and cloth is thrown out long before wear is apparent. It was made in the most redundant way, hand woven, every piece a different yarn, no pattern the same and the smallest pieces being the most detailed.