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Pamela Zimmerman…About My Weaving I am a self-taught fiber artist, using mostly basket making techniques, not necessarily in a traditional manner. Weaving is escape and exploration. There are very few boundaries as to what I consider “appropriate” weaving material, or “acceptable form." |
| My most frequently used techniques, coiling and twining, are acknowledged as time consuming and thought by many to be tedious. I find these processes contemplative and thought-ordering. It takes many hours to complete even small woven pieces. |
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I am obsessed with fiber, finding it difficult to restrict myself to one material. All fibers attract me, and I am constantly looking for new ones. Polymer clay has been present in my weaving for years, but recent experimentation with kiln-fired stoneware has helped take my weaving in a different direction, making it more earthy, ethnic and root-based. My desire is to create provocative forms with meaning, and my work has been often referred to as organic in style. |
| I tend to work in series, developing ideas over the course of several years, often making changes to works in the middle of the night. Birth, rebirth, cocooning, transition, transformation, metamorphosis, emergence, change, and perspectives on these processes often are apparent in my weaving. I seem to have more ideas than time execute them. |
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