8 pieces woven in silk and linen on a low-warp loom. Painted wood with tacks. 17x34cm each. 2022.
Based on Jean-Luc Nancy's idea that "to think is to feel the weight of things", I created the work - The Weight of the World - a set of 8 canvases in silk and linen, woven on a handloom. Using the hand as a scale, the weight is felt through a 'unsupported holding'. In this function, the hand doesn't hold or keep what it holds; the hand takes the weight and helps us to feel. I replace the hand with the canvas. The action is the same: weighing, which is done in a balancing movement so that the thing doesn't tip over. Thinking, then, presupposes being in constant movement, available to whatever comes (like the head that nods affirmatively), in flexibility, going from the surface to the depths and back to the surface, to feel what the world might be. "Thoughts weigh exactly the weight of meaning" (JLN). I feel the weight of objects and, to the same extent, I think about them. I weigh and think about the world.
