Weaving-An inspiration

Artists who have inspired my weaving

Tatiana Blass
Penelope


"Here is another stratagem of her heart's devising. She set up a great loom in her palace, and set to weaving a web of threads long and fine." 
The Odyssey of Homer, Richard Lattimore


This is a fascinating piece set in the Chapel of Morumbi in Sao Paulo. A neatly woven thirteen metre carpet runs from the chapel entrance to a loom near the altar. Here it deconstructs and flows through holes in the walls of the chapel and spills out into the chapel garden in a  thick web of crimson threads.

The carpet moves up the aisle of the chapel

The carpet coming up the aisle of the chapel and disintegrating into these vibrant threads, or is it threads forming a carpet? It looks rough, jungle like, the colour, the wall like a densely woven  forest. 

The threads from the carpet explode through the mud walled chapel.
The mud walls remind me of the mud walled houses I lived in as a child. The colour is bright red (brighter than the image here), a powerful and vibrant red.

The colours spill into the chapel garden, wrapping the entire building