This piece is probably 2 or more years in to the thought/design process. These start by floating around in my head and in sketchbooks before I finally getting around to drafting the design, printing/taping it and choosing colors to then starting to wind the warp. 2020 seems to be a good time for the culmination of this piece as we have become more dependant than ever on keeping in touch through Zoom, social media and having a general dependance on the internet; yet it also becomes the thing that can mess with our psyche the most.
As far as color I wanted to go dark on this piece, I even thought about black on black but I'm not up for driving myself crazy while weaving in 2021. I decided on a black warp and a grey warp. I also have to admit to myself that there are some little, occasional, bursts on positive things that happen over social media so I picked a few colors to put into each warp. Just one strand every 10 or so ends.
The above time lapse video is 2 hours into 3 minutes. I'm winding the first warp and the strands of color that will go into this warp. You can also tell when I'm counting warp threads that I'm watching TV (Blacklist, so good). Even with a warping wheel winding the warp is a tedious process.
I made a small sample wrap to get a color idea before I started winding this warp. I rarely do this, but I'm not used to working in black and grey with little other color. The sample shows the color coming in every 7th warp but I decided I want them more spaced-out so it's about double the amount of black between the strands.
Once I have 3-4 solid hours I'll get the next warp wound.
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