Negotiated Desires

Gerald Peters Contemporary

May 21 through July 31 2021​

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The materials and colors combined in these tapestries carry through an essence from the High
Desert of West Texas once felt by me into the physical realm. Weaving acts as a translator for a
feeling into an object of notation, linking past with present through one long intimate and infinite
moment, not adhered to time. Summer in the High Desert doesn't seem to adhere to time either
and it gives you two days in one when you time it right. It leaves you longing for that first sliver
of night when the sun breaks on you for a bit so your breath can sink deeper and your eyes can
steer upward for longer. My recent tapestries made during the summer of 2020 serve as an
artifact of feelings formed from disant desert blues, late August meteor showers and summer
shade. Through the process of making energy felt translates into energy held, then viewed. The
essence of a fleeting moment is processed through each thread's touch of my fingertips as a
reverence to melancholy. I see this transfer from dot to dot as lines that form truth, clarity and
beauty. I employ colors, textures and space to reverberate emotions left from experiences of
sublime stillness.The past and present is tied as threads to the beam of my loom with the
combined nuance of using weaving, such a traditional form of making, to hold a contemporary
conversation. I use an ancient act aged in alchemy to create contemporary paintings. Weaving
as a process for making paintings in itself contains the binding of time and dances between the
mythical and the mondain. From drafting to weaving my process contains strict formal
choreography, kindred to minimal painting while maintaining abstract references to the collective
memory that the materials, colors and titles send out of the American West due to a personal
history in and love for those Deserts. 

-EH
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