Bush Ice Geology exhibition piece for PWN Ngahere

A design based on “Experimental warp Freehand verses stripes“ I wove earlier. In this case the normal design process of brief to idea to design was reversed. Instead I just knew the original “playing about” rug needed only the green and white inverted to exactly fit the brief. I elaborated the reverse but again the idea is the same. It was woven in the same manner as the original. Two warp rug weave based on tabby with hand manipulation. Cotton stuffer warp, carpet wool weft and weaving warp, weft painting detail in black. Finish philippine edge with weaving warps darned back in.

The front represents the interaction of climate and bush with the white symbolising ice, snow and cold and the green the bush. The central figure is semi-random and was inspired by temperature records over long periods of time but equally well is a mountain ridge. The bush has an upper limit governed by the average temperature and so advances and retreats on the side of a ridge as the climate warms and cools. Temperatures drop with altitude, over geological time mountain ridges rise and are eroded and climate changes occur over all time scales.

The reverse represents the ground on which the bush is growing as bands of earth-tone colours symbolising layers of rock, each with its distinctive colour caused by minerals and trace elements. This is the stage the advance and retreat of the bush is played out on. Some rocks give rise to rich fertile soils which will promote stronger lusher bush and others not so much. Poor soils will lower the bush line hundreds of meters.

Size 990 x 1460 mm

$1060