Flow

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.

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 

A Moral or Something

Fairytale Warp

This work was created as a narrative. The beginning starts with colour and an overpowering, thick, heavy dark block.  There is a chaotic colour textural part that appears to thwart or stop the black mass.  It calms down some and then this is another larger chaotic feature in the middle. It calms down and almost immediately are dark stripes.  Near the end a dark patch that is filled with chaotic colour occurs. The piece is finished with three hangers.

It can be deciphered as good versus evil, chaos versus order, but when taken literally, neither of these quite work.  As a story or narrative, there is no obvious outcome, just kind of a muddle. This piece was created when thinking about chaos in relation to life, in relation to god; how what can look like chaos is actually order. I see god in chaos, order can overlook the spiritual side.  Everything has an element of order and of chaos, it simply depends on how close or how far ones perspective is. I was trying to be moralistic with the dark and chaos, but was also disagreeing or arguing as I did so. The background, certain parts more than others are the least harmonious aspects of the whole work.  While it holds the epic battle of the dark and the chaos, it also muddies the whole idea as it is far from a neutral background and it does not contribute to this interpretation. 

The last issue when looking at this work is that it just looks like fun, silly, enthusiastic expression that has no point other than light-hearted creative weaving. 

In the end I don't know if it is something to ponder or simply enjoy.