Back in November I was lucky to be selected as artist in residence for Arts Council’s ‘Art In Empty Shops’ scheme and was given the use of an old Burtons menswear shop.
I studied the Corn Dollie weave to create over 200 individually woven geometric forms using fine paper tubes.
Strung together as one form, they create patterns and shadows on the wall giving the feeling of a larger mass, reminding me of a Murmuration.
murmuration
noun literary
1 [ mass noun ] the action of murmuring: the murmuration of a flock of warblers.
2 rare a flock of starlings.
ORIGIN late Middle English: from French, from Latin murmuratio(n-), from murmurare ‘to murmur’. The usage as a collective noun dates from the late 15th cent.