My Tangled Garden View - Installed
2013
Wool Silk Mohair Tapestry of Plain and Twill Weave, on Painted Warp with Found Windows
62x54 inches
The Well Worn View installation involves
a mixed fibre tapestry and two leaded windows
salvaged from my grandmother-in-law’s circa 1910 home.
The foundation tapestry of mixed fibres
is meant to be an obscured and muted image
of my back yard.
The tapestry was created
on a horizontal loom
which allowed for painting
of the stretched warp threads
with acrylic ink.
The painting done pre-weaving.
Because this was a
4 shaft counterbalanced loom,
I was able to thread the setup to allow
the patchy tapestry to be woven
in a mixture of plain and twill weaves.
The tapestry consists of
a cotton and linen foundation
interwoven with mohair, silk and wool.
The tapestry mutes the bright inks
into indistinct pastel colour patches.
I was looking for a worn-out feeling
to come from the underlying indexing
of openly spaced linen weft
against the brightly painted seine twine warp.
I was looking for a worn-in feeling
to come from the accumulations
of tightly-packed twill patterned weft
of wool, silk and mohair.
The piece was intended
to reflect the idea of a kitchen linen;
well-used, but not used-up.
A view that is so familiar
that I can’t really remember what it looks like,
until I come home and stand there
and see it again.
I sort of hope that everyone has a Well Worn View,
somewhere in their recollection.
a mixed fibre tapestry and two leaded windows
salvaged from my grandmother-in-law’s circa 1910 home.
The foundation tapestry of mixed fibres
is meant to be an obscured and muted image
of my back yard.
The tapestry was created
on a horizontal loom
which allowed for painting
of the stretched warp threads
with acrylic ink.
The painting done pre-weaving.
Because this was a
4 shaft counterbalanced loom,
I was able to thread the setup to allow
the patchy tapestry to be woven
in a mixture of plain and twill weaves.
The tapestry consists of
a cotton and linen foundation
interwoven with mohair, silk and wool.
The tapestry mutes the bright inks
into indistinct pastel colour patches.
I was looking for a worn-out feeling
to come from the underlying indexing
of openly spaced linen weft
against the brightly painted seine twine warp.
I was looking for a worn-in feeling
to come from the accumulations
of tightly-packed twill patterned weft
of wool, silk and mohair.
The piece was intended
to reflect the idea of a kitchen linen;
well-used, but not used-up.
A view that is so familiar
that I can’t really remember what it looks like,
until I come home and stand there
and see it again.
I sort of hope that everyone has a Well Worn View,
somewhere in their recollection.
Sharon Hogg is a visual artist working in Calgary Alberta and Lombardy Ontario, Canada. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Art and a Masters of Fine Art from the Alberta College of Art and Design.
Where humans intersect with unseen natural forces, she imagines what lies behind or beneath the surface. More than seeing, she wants to feel the backstory, the understory, the glue that holds it all together. Her work seeks to bring that underlying level of awareness closer to the visible and the touchable.
The Sublime, New Materialism and the Vorticists are influences.