Katje's Art & The Weird World of Weave!

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We had the great fortune of one of our own sharing her work & techniques with us today! Katje let us view some of the artwork she's created since the pandemic began. At the beginning of the lockdown, she was in her craft room and realized she had all kinds of art supplies!! Luckily for us, she started putting it to paper. All kinds of paper! All kinds of watercolor paints, pens, pencils -- "If art supplies has the word, 'water,' in it, I probably have it!" Truly enjoyable to have her share "the how" of creating. Check out our member artwork in the top left (three little horizontal white lines.)   Here is Katje's Quarantine art.

Jerry found this fantastic artist, Faig Ahmed from Azerbaijan. He creates conceptual sculptural works of art that seem to erupt from traditional rugs. We also watched a short video showing his weavers working from his designs as he talked about his process. We only saw three of his sensations today -- Jerry found several more that are even more fantastical. We will definitely visit him again!! Included in this blog is the short video of his work that we watched today. 

Thanks for the magic of being together! See you tomorrow, hopefully! Stay safe!!

  • Faig Ahmed, Amorphous Puddle -- link --
  • Faig Ahmed, Between words and worlds "Virgin" -- link --
  • Faig Ahmed, Coherency -- link --

Here is an article that shows the first carpet being worked on the loom.  It is called Doubts in the article.

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