It all gets woven together

During the pandemic when we were locked down and figuring out how not to go insane with isolation and fear, I kept my art life alive through zoom. In that period of trying to keep creative and produce, and frankly to find new ways to express meaning without becoming dark, I took inspiration from Miro and mark-making. A lot of weird sketches and paintings came out of that period!

This  year as I looked back at older works and asked myself how I’ve changed and how my work reflects new attitudes and ideas, I scavenged from the “pandemic piles” and did what I’ve become known to do…I cut them up so that I could weave them into new art that is more, ugh, now.

It’s not that I want to erase personal history, although an argument can be made for getting rid of bad stuff. No one wants to be stuck in the past or a prisoner of doing the same thing over and over again, right?

Thanks to Miro for providing me a gateway to creating piles of work with strong marks and black lines—an excellent source for today. I think I have decided to hang my hat on my woven art for the time being. What started as a rebellious, playful adventure has become something of an artful addiction. I am grateful for the old paintings and demos that are source material for painted papers that can be cut into weavable strips. This I can see in my mind before I build it. I compose in my head and think about math and color, shapes and lines. Every day fresh ideas present themselves, and time is the only barrier to playing them all out as quickly as I would like.

I call this woven piece “A Day In the Life” as it a memorial to the present and its cumulative nature, including its relics of the past.

A Day In The Life, Angela Wrahtz (C) 2025