I’m pleased to have three Woven Portraits from 2021 included in “Human+Nature: Photographic Explorations” at another great group exhibition at Blue Spiral 1 Gallery in Asheville, NC. Two of these are smaller pieces that are very special to me: Untitled Woven Portrait 22 and Untitled Woven Portrait 25. These were the first two Woven Portraits assembled from 5mm strips, which represented a step in my process that, along with backlighting some woven pieces (as in the NatGeo and the UCSF Magazine commissions), I didn’t think I’d take—or at least I wasn’t sure how to take until last year. In any case, they hang together and, shown in these photos, perhaps finally provide some sense of scale.
The gallery’s curatorial Statement is as follows:
Human+Nature presents photographic explorations of the interconnected relationship between humans and nature. These images reveal not only our individual perception of nature, but also our own nature made manifest through changes inflicted on the environment and the adjustment of humankind within self-created structures. Our primary human instincts drive us to control and dominate while also nurturing and finding connection in our surroundings.
Artists: Ralph Burns, John Dickson, Bill Green, Brian Kelley, Micah Mackenzie, Peter Olson, Susan Patrice, David Samuel Stern
Photos courtesy Blue Spiral 1 Gallery