I know, a blog is like a living and breathing organism like the Tamaguchi pet you had in elementary school- if you don’t feed it, pet it, love it, etc, it will die, and my weaving blog basically died last semester because I had the heaviest course load on top of the 3hr commute I do each day, to and from school. With my apologies (and slight complaints) aired out, I’ve decided that I will post each day this week with everything that I Did do during the semester…. and let me tell you, I was quite a busy girl.
I enrolled in a collective weaving class, and our first assignment was to interpret a reading. We were paired up and set about explainging the authors ideas through the metaphor of weaving. My classmate Rudy Ruderman & I decided we would do a performance weave describing how each material, warp & weft, is important to the final product. We used the idea of baking bread as our metaphor, and the city of Chicago as our hearth. A basic bread recipe calls for water, flour, and salt. From there, a baker can add in elements such as olive oil, pepper, or whatever else he/she fancies. Rudy & I used the city street as our warp, while we scattered flour and salt from a bag in a line, indicating the weft. Rudy then swept up the flour and salt mixture with the dirt of Chicago, combining the two elements, warp & weft, into one, just like a piece of fabric.
Rudy then took home our bread mix and baked the bread! We didn’t eat it, but our idea had solidified into something tangible. We collectively weaved with each other, and the city, 2 points for us;)
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