Description
In this tapestry we have played with volumetric masses: the three asymmetrical islands spread over its surface. It is interwoven at different points with different openings through which other strips have been woven in and out, entangled and playing at appearing and disappearing to form a complicated web with no beginning and no end.
There is a regular checkerboard in its upper left part made up of small rectangles, below which a series of wavy lines run through it in clear homage to Hundertwasser.
The rectangular structure that the loom gives it at the time of the work is broken by its base, standing out against the background and playing with the shadows it casts.
It hangs from a boxwood branch dyed in the same color that is visually integrated into its structure and metric.
We know that you can see all this and much more if you dedicate a little time, but we also want to tell you that creating a tapestry allows you to test your creativity, break the established rules and use the technique freely exploring shapes, volumes, textures … It frees you because once you have determined the material you are going to use and what you essentially want to do, you go to a state of mind that is difficult to explain. It’s like if you have inside you a swift hare and a conscientious tortoise. The hare is anxious and wants to see finished what your head has created and you have captured in your sketches and the tortoise enjoys each turn of the thread in the warp, each pass, recreating itself in its texture and wishing that this journey never ends. Honestly, it is desperate to live with these two characters at the same time, they will never agree.
The work we proposed in the tapestry “Rojos”, consisted of interweaving warp and weft giving it shape and volume, but above all it was to explore the color. To perceive that a red color, next to another type of red, and another and another red, has so many shades that it makes you reflect on which one is the “real” red color.
Combining a wide palette of reds brings us undoubtedly to the word and this to its meaning and use in the times:
It’s the first thing that comes to mind when someone asks us to name a color. Red color was used to demonstrate power and wealth: kings and emperors did it because at one time obtaining a red dye was expensive and really complicated. Many nations have it on their flag. It is the first color we learn to say as children. We use it in internationally established signs to warn: think of the no trespassing sign, a traffic light, a flag informing us that the sea is not in the mood for jokes or the famous red button as the final option of extermination, self-destruction…
In economics it was used by accountants, hence the expression “red numbers”.
In our country, during the civil war, the term “reds” was used to refer to the military loyal to the Second Republic and today it continues to be identified with left-wing thinking. The reflection is that, with this information, you look at the tapestry and ask yourself, ” yes, but what red?”
We place a beautiful red carpet to recognition, vanity and ego We make a corridor for love to step on the red petals of a rose.
If we were asked what color we see passion as, we would probably say red.
In front of a bonfire we find it hard to look away, as if we were trying to remember something that happened to us a long time ago and we couldn’t do it. It is hypnotic.
It has many surnames (bull’s blood, carmine, scarlet, magenta…) it has many stories, many meanings that we encourage you to discover.
It is more than a color.
