| “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. This work is mostly composed of nineteenth century French and British seascapes. |
I’ve also used some pictures by the American artist Winslow Homer, who lived and worked in Maine. Homer focused on marine subjects for the last thirty years of his career, and explored how seascapes present myriad pictorial issues. Where to set the horizon line for instance? |
A low or high horizon can determine whether the picture feels expansive or ominous. It also takes real expertise to represent a believable depiction of waves, which have tendencies to align themselves in rhythmic patterns, without stylizing them so much that they lose their random quality. |
