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Studio Notes: Texture Tactility Tactile Textile

April 18, 2022 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

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Anni Albers, Bind, BOOK BOARD, Cord, Fiber, Glue, hemp, HEMP CORD, In the Studio, Jute, jute cord, Knot, Layer, Materiality, Materials, Sew, Spiral, Stitich, String, Studio, Studio notes, Studio shots, Tactile textile, tactility, Textile, Texture, touch, typewriter ribbon, Wrap

Like White on White 2

November 6, 2018 By Debra Disman

Using the term “white” very broadly.

It is really the layering of similar hued discrete textures and materials and the richness, emotions and feelings this creates…thread on paper, paper on cloth, cord on cloth, paper on board. Cord, string and thread falling to the tabletop,  gathering, bunching, tangling, hanging or stitched, taut, linear.

“Texō“…”I weave.” Texture, textile, text, context.

Endless combinations, permutations, variations.

 

Filed Under: Artists' Books, Work Tagged With: "Texo", ARTIST'S BOOKS, Book as Art, Context, Sculptural Books, Text, Textile, Texture, The Artof the Book The Book of the Art

in the BLACK

July 2, 2018 By Debra Disman

Black and White? (I)

Working in whites and tones of white and white on white…I wanted to see what all BLACK would render.

Here we go…

Black Hang Out, 2017
Book board, canvas, hemp cord, watercolor paper, acrylic paint

Maximum Security, 2018
Book board, canvas, hemp cord, watercolor paper, ink, acrylic paint, wood

In the Thicket of It, 2018
Book board, canvas, hemp cord, watercolor paper, acrylic paint, wood

Night time. Mystery. Enticing. Forbidding. Absolute. Lost. Found. Again.

Continuing.

Filed Under: Artists' Books, New Work, Work Tagged With: ARTIST'S BOOKS, Black, Black Art Work, Black Sculpture, Fiber, Mixed media, Sculptural Books, Sculpture, Texture

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