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This week in the studio I worked on my large scale loom. I have had thoughts about leaving it and starting a new one, but I felt like i needed to take it further. I added a gray/blue color this week and its starting to create depth and form. I enjoy all the of the relationships that I am making through color, composition, and material. I hope to finish this loom up within the next few weeks, and start on another one. I have also been thinking of ways to create my looms into standing 3D objects, to act as a sculpture, possibly by leaving my tapestries on the actual loom.  An artist i have been looking into is Jo Deeley. Jo creates sculptural objects out of textiles. She finds a lot of her content in her process as well as explores the use of traditional methods with contemporary mediums.  The reading this week is extremely insightful. It begins by taking about balancing your time as an artist, which is really important to me. In my life, too much of anyt...

For me, I make art because I find that it is the best way to express me as a person, as one that holds a creative mind. An artist is not one that has a certain artistic skill set, but its someone who can translate the physicality of society, the world, their life, etc. into their work they make. I think an artist’s role in society is to take their creative mind and make something good come out of it. I don’t necessarily feel any sort of connection with any art movements in the past, or currently, actually I try to stay away from things that have been controversial, I find them to be overdone and if it doesn’t actually have anything to do with my life than I don’t find it necessary to use that as a means of giving my art “meaning”. I think my work definitely is concerned with myself and the way that I live my life from day to day, its very much about the process of what I am making in terms of the process of how I live my life. Outside of the art world, I am concerned about people. I f...

This week in the studio was extremely successful. Im getting really excited about my new loom, i think because its so big. I spent a lot of hours re-building my frame and then putting every string back into a slot, and then tightening each string, turns out i probably could have started over and saved more time, but since i had already weaved on it i didn't want to lose my progress. I added a large amount more and really had a lot of fun with it this week.  Izziyana Suhaimi is a fiber artist whose work focuses on the juxtaposition of traditional art verses todays digital art. Although my work does not focus on digital art specifically, my art does concern the juxtaposition between traditional and contemporary art. My work is taken from a skill that i could do as a young inexperienced child, to now, pushing it further into finding why i do it.

This week in the studio was interesting. It began last week when i had just spent several hours working on my new 4x4 foot ended in snapping and breaking. I had it all warped and then it just gave out. I guess thats just life. My professors were nice enough to fix it for me so i could continue weaving on it. This week i was having a really rough time weaving on it, actually had to re-do a lot of what i have done last week when it lost its tension. I then realized it just wasn't tight enough anymore because it had warped so much, so i went through about every warped string and re-tied them tighter. After that it was really tight and i was able to weave a good portion but now i am realizing i need to reframe it so that it is really secure. So, i didn't get as much done this week as i wish i could have but it was definitely a learning process. I have realized how much prep my medium takes. Not like picking up a pen, pencil, or paintbrush. Creating your own loom isn't the easie...

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This week in the studio I wanted to change things up, especially my color palette because i felt like i was getting a little bored with it. I decided to cut my two looms off on the bottom and tied them together in the middle, i felt like it actually really helps the space in between the two. Having them connected is just a better use of the space. I think eventually i will want to put one rod that runs all the way through both of them. For my next loom, i decided to make it a lot larger. I created a 4x4 loom and warped it and began looming. Im realizing now how much more challenging it is to go this big when you're doing it all by hand. Im not sure how long this will take me to complete but i think it will be really exciting to watch the process of it gradually become whole. I was assigned heather for our extra project this week, who paints realistic images of indulgent foods. For me personally, ice cream is my weakness, where i tend to indulge; so i painted an...

Mirrors 21/2x4 ft.

Painters tape 6x8 ft.