Loosen
Portland, OR: Anne Greenwood, 2024. Number 4 of 10 copies. A scroll book handwoven on a Jaquard loom featuring lyrics from the song "Loosen, Loosen" by Aly Halpert from the album Loosen released by Rising Star Records in 2022. In the background images of the moon's phases shine through the words. According to the book artist: "This song / prayer / meditation was written to heal personal and societal grief. For ordinary grief, extraordinary grief, the unbearable kind and the unseen kind and the enduring kind, in service of the exhales and letting go of what is ours and not ours, of compassion, lightness, and becoming who we are after and through it all." This scroll book is made from lambswool and cotton fiber with a hand carved cherry wood dowel made by Piers Rippey. It is housed in a red, blue, and black hand woven bag with black string ties. It was created at the Praxis Textile Workshop in Cleveland, OH. Size: 9 x about 33 inches long. ARTB/031324
Anne Greenwood is a well-known artist who has exhibited widely and whose works can be found in museum and library collections around the country. She was born on the high Dakota Plains and was led to an art degree by her artist grandmother. In 1990 she moved to Portland, Oregon and began her career as an artist and horticulturalist. Anne’s artwork explores an interest in folk art and speaks of her kinship with the natural world and how this influences her connection to daily life. In 2002, Anne set up a textiles studio integrating handwork, book arts, and textiles into an interdisciplinary practice. From Anne's artist's statement: "My artistic practice navigates an infinite network of connections: narrating the simple and complex, physical and ephemeral, past and present, within the context of place, history, and transformation. I form relationships that expand and fortify admiration and reverence, leading to the discovery of new truths about the world around us." Fine.
Item #37841
Price: $950.00