The overarching theme of this project is to weave a third space into existence as if a wise ‘Spider Woman’ could harness cultural creative energies of PVDFest. E.W Soja’s conceptualization of Thirdspace powers this dream weaving. Soja’s theory of Thirdspace is where “everything comes together subjectivity and objectivity, the abstract and the concrete, the real and the imagined“.
Dreamweave at PVDfest 2020
Created and installed entirely by the artist during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A 40ft. x 150ft. façade of a mid-century Civic Center Parking Garage in Providence RI serving as a loom.
The open pillar structure acting as the “warp” was woven with sixteen, 160ft. long x 2ft. wide streams of titillating, multicolored fabric patterns and designs, printed on backlight medium, laminated with UV stabilized vinyl film; as the “weft”.
Outside light creates a massive stained-glass, cathedral effect that also cast patterns on the interior floor
*New iterations of Project: DreamWeave for a ThirdSpace are currently in development.
Watch the documentary video HERE.
PVD-Fest – Civic Center Garage
165 Washington Street ,Providence (RI),2020-2021
As a child, I remember excursions with my mother and sisters, to the Providence and Warwick textile mill outlets. We would forage for fabric remnants to create something wonderful.
