JONI MARIE DAVIS
Artists
JONI MARIE DAVIS
ARTIST
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, USA
Statement
I work with wool. I make "skins" for a variety of forms using wool fabric. In this multi-step process, I am by turns a scrounger, a designer, a geometer, a knitter, a fuller, a colorist, and a sewist. The end result seems to be a blend of textile art and sculpture. I include both deliberate order and randomness, serendipity, even chaos, in every piece: I make rules for a design, and then I break them selectively; I draft a motif pattern precisely, knowing full well that the medium will never be able to live up to that precision. Whether I am crafting a useful object or dreaming up a figure to embody an idea, I always pull in vibrant color, playfulness, surprise, and beauty in pattern and form.
Artworks
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My Fuzzy Voronoi
55 x 55 x 55 cm
Fiber
2015