Creating this new series has expanded my weaving skills to a large format, challenging the way I make art via a new format and forming the basis for my next body of work, The Middle Distance. ‘Staring into the middle distance’, is a blurry state of focused disengagement with one’s surroundings. A moment caught between reality and dreaming, the now and what is possibly soon to be. For me it represents a psychological state that was prevalent for me during Melbourne's Covid-19 lock-downs in 2020. Simultaneously alert and ready to act, yet overwhelmed and restricted. This sense of experiencing opposing states is reflected in the tapestries.
This Project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
Neither Nor, 2020, Cotton, 80 x 90cm.
The Midst, 2020, Cotton, 94 x 100cm.
The Close, 2020, Cotton and wool, 60 x 105 cm.
Distance (in progress), 2020
Distance (Detail), 2020