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2007-01-01
Paper published in Pacific Arts, vol 3, pp115-127 (2007). Abstract: Commoner women’s textile-work is a key medium in the ongoing process of hybridizing Tongan culture for the contemporary ‘modernity plus tradition’ present. One set of wefts for this paper are ethnographic. Commoner women’s...
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2020-01-22
The relationship between ancient craft practices, “women’s work”, and technology is the primary focus of my artwork. Using the grid as a visual and conceptual link, I investigate the roots of modern technology in hand weaving practices. The structure of the grid can be traced back to the crossing...
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A Practice-Based Study of Students' Lived Experience in Ernesto Aroztegui's Weaving Workshop (mid 1960s-mid 1980s)
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The textile art movement of the 1960s to the 1980s in Uruguay was a remarkable phenomenon for a country with no known textile tradition. Within the context of sociopolitical upheaval which characterized this time-period, Ernesto Aroztegui’s workshop had a central role in the flourishing of the...