Chaos Series

Everything has order, precise lines, laws, laws, order and purpose. Order is what allows our world to exist, it established and maintains equilibriums. But it is chaos that drives and changes our world; evolution requires chaos to move forward. My Chaos series is a celebration, expression, and inquiry into chaos. It also explores quantum mechanics theory (whereby the act of watching changed the movement of electrons) and how inanimate objects have a spiritual or self-knowledge side to them and how our relationships, as people, with these inanimate objects affects them. My pieces seek to create chaos out of order, disequilibrium, dynamism, uncertainties, joy, explosion and change. 

    Tangled                             A Morel or Something

     2008                                           2008

My piece Tangled, from my 

Black wool, Rusty Metal Series was the inspiration for my Chaos Series. It

 started with two works on the Fairy Tale Warp, Faerie & A Morel or Something. While making A Morel or Something, I created and worked out my theories on chaos. I also established some guides which most of the following works would follow: technical chaos, having very loose weft concurrently very tight weft; and having my chaos involve colour/ a sense of joy.

Woman with two vices

Woman with Two Vices

Tube Warp

2011

wool, metal, plastic, vice grips, chain, tinfoil 

Waffle Weave

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.