Description
In this work, Olga de Amaral aligned 284 separately woven ribbons. As light travels through the spaces between them, a shifting, rippling pattern appears. It belongs to a series called Entornos (Environments), in which Amaral experiments with defining space by creating weavings that can function as walls or alter our experience of a room. She explains: “As I build these surfaces, I create spaces of meditation, contemplation, and reflection . . . Tapestry, fibers, strands, units, cords, all are transparent layers with their own meanings, revealing and hiding each other to make one presence, one tone that speaks about the texture of time.”
Provenance
Accession Number
264664
Medium
Horse hair and hand-spun wool
Dimensions
219.8 × 213.4 cm (86 1/2 × 84 in.)
Classification
fiber art
Credit Line
Grace R. Smith Textile, Dr. and Mrs. Magnus P. Urnes Memorial, Kate S. Buckingham, and Pauline Seipp Armstrong endowment funds