Visual Arts Award nomination

I know that I am just excited to share this moment with all of my friends and followers, but today I received this note from the Government of Ontario.

The ocasion was the Stars Among Us Award 09.

I was nominated for the Visual Arts Award last May, and eventhough I did not win out of the 3 finalists, I was so excited to have my children, my husband and my mom, who was visiting us from Mexico. I was also excited to have been able to figure in the Arts Award Cathegory representing the Fibre Arts. So Important that it has to be re-valued and positioned side by side with all the other visual arts disciplines. To envision Tapestry and Fibre Art as ART, and not only as a mere craft!

I am quite new to Canada, for I have been living her for almost 4 years, but I felt that here I can keep up my work. For a while I lost a bit of track due to moves from Mexico, then Spain, then Mexico back again....and now here...

But now, I am feeling comfortable with my life, I opened the Studio and finally, after a couple of years started weaving my tapestries and keeping up with my commissions.

Thank you for sharing this space to express just a little bit of my inner thoughts and feelings. This is an important step in my new life in Canada.

Thank you Canada for openning your arms!......

This is the tapestry .I still need to work on the mounting over the canvas. It is drying out before sweing it. It will help to stretch it a bit more. The brown lines tend to pull a little bit inside. They are very tight, and they would look better all tightly stretched.

Finishing the commission

The finished piece measures 50 X 35 in. and the mounting will be sewn to a canvas 60 X 40 in. painted in dark brown colour.I still need to owrk on the mounting. I am right now working on the back finishes.It was interesting to see the development of this piece. Tha one before was soooo textural and this , eventhough it has texture and different techniques it is quite plain on the surface.

finished commission

This is the day of the details. I still have to work on the mounting because since it is all white over white, I need to mount it to a coloured canvas in a contrast colour. In this case I selected a dark brown because the lines are brown. It makes good contrast as a background.
This is a detail of the centre part of the design. It has metallic threads and rough natural material. Again the contrast in texture is one of my main interests.

more images

On one hand I really think this proyect has movement by itself, with no textural resource....on the other hand, the original image, where I am inspiring from, is a whole bunch of fabrics all together which moved me to do this particular proyect. Let's find out during the next weeks what will become of it. It is exciting to have transformations on the way. The fibres and the textures speak for themselves and they are the ones to tell you what they want, don't they!

working on my new commission

I am still working trying to figure out how will I develop my almost 3-D tapestry. As you saw in the detail before, I was trying to have an approach with crochet, now I don't know exactly because I am enjoying the simplicity of only working in the visual volumes....let's see what comes out of this. I am almost 3/4 done the back part as you can see. Keep in touch to see the final version. I am looking forward to see this piece fully woven.

working and exploring again

well here I am again... this time trying to explore into a almost 3-D piece. I am still in the process of trying out different things to get to the idea of the waves. I tried with separate warp...no, it didn't work, I tried then with small pieces of woven strips with gradation...but it seem to be too visualy heavy and thick

so this time I am trying with crochet....let's see what comes out of it! keep in touch .