BA week 2

This week in the studio I realized that I want to slow down my process of the loom, not because I don’t want to move quickly but because I think I need to take into account my use of craftsmanship. I think if I speed through these, I will be overwhelmed at the end, as I try to put them all back in their frames and fix them. I realize that I wont be able to make final formal decisions until the end when they are all completed, but I want to at least work as if they are the final pieces. One major thing I did learn about my process of looming is that its not like a painting where you can go back through it and change and cover things up, once you complete a section that’s that and its almost permanent, unless you go back and cut it all out of course. Its also very directional, having to start from one place and moving in a line. This process is actually a cool reflection of my life and how I can’t necessarily turn back and change the past, all I can do is move forward and see where the rest of life takes me. This week in the studio was a lot more meditative now that I know what I will be working on for the semester. 
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This week I found the artist, Judith Reece. She creates landscapes out of textiles. Without reading her artist statement, I find her work to be based on some sort of feeling or memory she had in the past, and these bring her back to them. I think for me, her work can influence mine because it can be similar in terms of the layout, not as abstract as mine though. But I think working with landscapes and something that your viewer can vision just as you can, although
they may not understand its value and importance; they can still treasure its beauty. 

As I begin reading the assigned reading, it does nothing but make me want to say exactly every couple minutes. This is probably one of the most accurate things I have read coming from an artist about art since ever! This makes me so happy that my general thoughts and concerns are actually completely normal. That indeed they are actually shared by many others, not just me. I can find so much inspiration through this because it is true, as artists we aren’t so satisfied by the pretty outcome at the end, but the process we go through of creating a piece. Process is so so important to me right now, if I’m not enjoying the process, I’m not enjoying it at all; it actually makes me hate what I’m doing, which is awful. So this semester I am focusing more on not what I am making but why. Why am I making this and why this way? What does its process leave me with? I truly think every week I begin another one of these looms, I begin to understand why I do what I do even more. 

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