{"id":2610,"date":"2014-01-25T08:54:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T13:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2021-01-25T08:44:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T13:44:46","slug":"fabulous-fibre-or-textile-gold-hanging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2610","title":{"rendered":"Fabulous Fibre or Textile Gold Hanging"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Santa<\/a><\/p>\n

When we walked into the foyer of this hotel, way, way above the class of hotel where we usually stay – a one night treat – I took a deep breath when I saw this fabulous hanging, wondering if it was El Anatsui’s<\/span><\/a> work – and though it probably isn’t,…\u00a0 Update – why did I not come back and update the information? At some later date I did learn this artist was Olga Amaral<\/a> Colombia’s famous fibre artist, see images are online<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

And there was no excuse for there being no accreditation on the wall near it, and no excuse for none of the staff around being able to tell me it, either!<\/p>\n

\"Santa<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Santa<\/a><\/p>\n

These\u00a0squares of whatever are less than 1″,\u00a0 or say 2cm square, and joined by fibre or stitching,\u00a0 but there seem to be 2 styles of joining, which give different texture areas.\u00a0 The detail directly above, which I was able to see without handling it, suggests the ties go between two layers, suggestive of some of Kathy Loomis’<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> and Wen Redmond’s joined segmented works<\/span><\/a>, but other parts seem to be linked with a metal piece, giving a more solid appearance.\u00a0 Thought provoking anyway.<\/p>\n

Update – in what I have read since discovering her work, her abstract designs carry deep emotional ties to her country’s history, geography and culture.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we walked into the foyer of this hotel, way, way above the class of hotel where we usually stay – a one night treat – I took a deep breath when I saw this fabulous hanging, wondering if it was El Anatsui’s work – and though it probably isn’t,…\u00a0 Update – why did I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-G6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6366,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions\/6366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}