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THE WHITE BOAT OF WINTER
is woven sideways as a kind of visual diary, sourced from a collection of my photographs very roughly collaged together. This allowed several different phases of the passage of winter to be contained in the one composition. I hit on the idea of using the boat travelling through time quite late on in the weaving of the tapestry but included it anyway even though it had to be shoehorned into the composition and is in some ways quite strange and uncomfortable - but then the winter was also strange and uncomfortable. I'm especially excited by this risky 'seat-of-the-pants' working style - when I start a big tapestry that will require an enormous investment of time without much idea of where it will end up. I like going through lots of changes of mind and evolutions during the weaving and having to have faith in my subconscious to pull it all together at the very last minute....maybe.