“Veduta” means “view” in Italian. In the series of Veduta weavings, I explore how systems of color can evoke memories of certain places or even impressions of places where I've never been.
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This work is composed of nineteenth century French Impressionist landscapes, but in assembling them I was trying to depict one of those brutally hot August days that we have in southeast Texas. |
Those sorts of days when the live oak trees, isolated on the plain, look black against the blue-white sky. I chose the proportion of the picture to stress the seeming endlessness of the prairie. |
