Very interested in this idea of a "universal language" in relation to textiles. Patterns and shapes are loaded with significance, be this about culture, history, experience, etc.
"Looking at artefacts across the ages you begin to observe a universal language of patterns and forms that has an ability to tell narratives without words"
"I do think I have become interested in other ways of presenting stories outside of the traditional book form. In particular how you can present a story in one picture, like tapestries, quilts and maps of the past, your eye must move around the picture and piece together the narrative"
How is presenting ideas or stories through textile mediums difference to page-based narrative? How can it be more subtle? More nuanced? More abstracted? How would reactions toward a certain pattern or image or idea differ if it was presented as a printed textile, or weaving, rather than a digitally rendered flat image?
"I see the weavings as objects because they are built from scratch rather than applied"Does the tactile process, or the 'built from scratch'-ness of work as an object rather than an applied image, carry meaning in itself?
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