“K no W Safe Place”
2023, 60 x 48 x 48″, canvas, netting, hemp cord, nylon cord, cotton cord, lace, ribbon, acrylic paint, pH neutral adhesive, wooden dowel
and elbow grease, commitment, stick to it ness, imagination, vision, strength and love
Artist
By Debra Disman
“K no W Safe Place”
2023, 60 x 48 x 48″, canvas, netting, hemp cord, nylon cord, cotton cord, lace, ribbon, acrylic paint, pH neutral adhesive, wooden dowel
and elbow grease, commitment, stick to it ness, imagination, vision, strength and love
By Debra Disman
“K no W Safe Place”
2023, 60 x 48 x 48″, canvas, netting, hemp cord, nylon cord, cotton cord, lace, ribbon, acrylic paint, pH neutral adhesive, wooden dowel
and elbow grease, commitment, stick to it ness, imagination, vision, strength and love
By Debra Disman
“Profusion“, 2018, 8.5 x 24.5 x 7.75, Book board, mulberry paper, watercolor paper, canvas, hemp cord
By Debra Disman
“Finally and Just for a Minute“, 2022, hanging from the ceiling in my studio at 18th Street Art Center (Olympic Campus) in Santa Monica, CA. (Canvas, burlap, hemp cord, acrylic paint, ribbon) (Pictured, the Los Angeles-based artist Randi Matushevitz)
“Rent Wound Tear, Mend Heal Repair”, 2022, hanging on wall in slight relief, in the exhibition “Collective Acts of Peace” at the 18th Street Art Center Airport Campus Slipstream Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. (Canvas, string, hemp cord, lace, acrylic paint)
“Womb”, 2020, hanging from the ceiling in 18th Street Art Center’s Slipstream Gallery, in my studio at 18th Street Art Center’s Olympic Campus, Santa Monica, CA, and in the Arts at Blue Roof Summer Festival, in the “Please Touch” exhibition at Blue Roof Studios in South Los Angeles. (Plastic hula hoop, raw canvass, jute cord)
“Unfolding Possibilities“, 2021, on pedestal in the exhibition “Recovery Justice: Being Well“, at the 18th Street Art Center Airport Campus Slipstream Gallery
in Santa Monica, CA. (Mulberry paper, sewing thread, gold thread)
“Chromatic Interactions: The Golden Thread“, 2020, hanging on the wall in my studio at 18th Street Art Center (Olympic Campus) in Santa Monica, CA.
(file cards, sewing thread, gold thread, markers, crayons, pencils)
By Debra Disman
Today I am sharing some explorations into “tactile textiles,”, a term coined, as understand it, by Anni Albers, tactile textile artist/weaver!
Such works and materials become spaces, places, rooms, lands, terrain, forests…tactile explorations into the unknown, guided by, among other things, the sense of touch, a tactile sensibility.
Detail of “Forest Through The Trees”, book board, hemp cord, wood, canvas, acrylic paint, used typewriter ribbon, ribbon
Test piece/sample, paper, jute cord
Detail of “It’s Not Black or White”, book board, mulberry paper, used typewriter ribbon
Detail of “FruitFull” (in process), textile samples, hemp cord
Stacked pieces of “to the trade” folded textile samples
Stacked pieces of repurposed and folded denim cut from jeans