Didn’t Make the Cut
Like many artists, I have a growing stack of sketches, tests, and artwork that didn’t work. Some pieces felt incomplete, others got messed up. These are a few of the weavings I’ve made that didn’t make the cut.
I really like the weaving above, but it did not fit with the body of work I was making for an exhibit because it was—and still is— strange. I wove together two photos of myself eating in my childhood home: one photograph is me as a baby eating pureed baby food and the other is me as a toddler eating cereal.
The weaving above taught me a two lessons: I learned that I didn’t need to cut the entire photograph and that I shouldn’t cut the horizontal strips short before weaving because they might end up being too short.
With the square pieces above, I had made smaller printer paper tests that I liked a good deal when I made them, but something about the larger paper weavings felt off and incomplete. I eventually realized that their final form needed to be quilts.
The weaving above was the first test I did of two photographs taken seconds apart of my sister and I holding kittens. I liked the pieec above, but wanted to try a different weaving pattern, which is eventually what became the final version.