Living Cinema
$3,000
Archival pigment print of scanned slide film
29.75”W x 30”H with 1” maple frame
Music for Weavers is an expression and processing of relationship abuse, survival, and recovery. The artists utilize film portraiture, hand weaving, and musical improvisation to question the notion of a centralized self and rigid patterns of behavior in the face of identity-splitting trauma and painstaking reintegration.
The exhibition features four largescale prints of analog photographs featuring a masked subject in bold, vibrant styling and colors. By opting to show the face obscured by a mask crafted from fragments by Oakland-based craftsperson and artist Sadie Greyduck, and by using multiple exposure techniques on different film stocks, these portraits adamantly resist the viewer’s access to the soul, instead refracting the gaze through a sea of scarlet.
Five weavings made from a single overshot pattern provide a grounding counterpart to the photographs, but nonetheless do not offer the viewer relief from constant change. Though they follow a pattern, they refuse to repeat, instead dancing around a shared motif and warping it past recognition.
The works in the exhibition embody the quiet rage of a weaver who executes patterns obediently, her mind thriving secretly in dreams of living undisrupted by social and interpersonal agreements. Drawing on the power and pain locked inside patternmaking, repetition, and the destruction of obligations, Music for Weavers provides a transformative sanctuary for viewers intent on dissolving oppressive bonds.
