Stella Prichard / Fiber-ish

Through weaving, staining, cutting, and reassembling, I was able to treat the canvas as both material and subject. I saw weaving not just as a technique but also as a conceptual gesture that allowed me to challenge the conventional ideas of painting. I cut stained and poured canvases into to strips to then weave them back together which allowed the logic of the gird to hold disruptions and human errors. These gestures set a foreground of the invisible labor traditionally hidden behind an image. Raw hems, loose threads, and the bleeding of paint or the mistakes help speak to process and imperfection. My own process became a conversation between construction and collapse, pieces were made but then taken apart to just be put together again in a different view. I learned when to act and when to step back and had let the materials be the voice. The resulting work led to portal like paintings on top of woven structures, with bright stained surfaces and floral or landscape elements, they point inward to suggest depth and dimension while reminding the viewer there is still something beneath the surface. By rethinking the canvas as an object, I aimed to crete work that invites slowness and attention and a reconsideration of what deserves visibility. The canvas is not just a backdrop but a participant in the painting with a presence of its own.

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