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Suzanne Tick combines her love for texture with a curiosity for new technology to create textile products that are elegant, natural in appearance, and functional. Integrating the natural with the manmade is at the foundation of her work. The Open Plane carpet is just one example: wanting to represent the irregularities of natural fiber like sisal as well as the variegations that occur in the hand-dyeing of wool, Tick and her partner in Tuva Looms, Terry Mowers, have created a carpet which, through a combination of conventional weaving equipment and the careful manipulation of dyeing, is reproducible in manufacture but not in appearance.
stumbled upon this girl’s work the other day. she graduated from cranbrook with a friend of mine.
Cities have character, they have personality. They reflect the times and places in which they are built just as they come to represent the people who live and work within their borders. My work seeks to build a bridge between textiles and the built environment. Through different lacemaking techniques, I explore concepts within architecture and urban planning, investigating ideas of span and space, form and pattern, social construction, gently stepping between the natural and the built world. We change our cities, but our cities also change us.
My favorite skirt in the whole world, that I have put so much time and effort into, is totally unwearable because no matter how many times and how perfectly I patch it (seriously, the patches look incredible), the next day a new rip will form somewhere else. In the past I’ve also just bunched up the fabric around the split and held it together with a safety pin, which, as you can imagine, looks kind of ridiculous… Then people comment on how ghetto I look and I get self conscious and pack the skirt away in the closet.
But Nava has inspired me to embrace the imperfections. My project for this next week will be embellishing the holes on my skirt. (And putting new fabric behind the holes so my underwear doesn’t show…)
while we’re on the topic of lace, check out this fence by Demakersvan.
sidenote: I am 98% sure that I’ve been awake for nearly 38 hours right now. the 2% is due to a couple times this morning when I zoned out pretty bad and am not sure what the heck I was doing. I wasn’t tired last night so I just never went to bed with the grand idea that tonight I would fall fast asleep: sleeping schedule magically fixed! but now the sleep sensors are still not kicking in and I can feel the potential for another allnighter. and this isn’t something new at all, but usually I fall asleep around the 30 hours mark. WHAT is WRONG with me. didn’t sylvia plath experience something like this in The Bell Jar? she didn’t sleep for two weeks or something ridiculous like that, and then of course the story ended very badly…
