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| Kalachakra - weaving by Donna Millen |
ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
Last
year I re-discovered the art of spinning. Unlike weaving tapestry,
spinning yarn is relaxing. I am producing multi-coloured yarn to sell
to knitters and weavers. That satisfies the practical side of my
nature while I continue to weave tapestries, my obsession.
I
have recently completed a small tapestry which I started this winter
while at a Tapestry Weaver’s Retreat in Mexico. The subject is a
well-known Buddhist Mantra called the Kalachakra which is
associated with world peace. It is the most challenging
tapestry technically, that I have done. At present, I am continuing
to work on the large tapestry that I started two years ago! It is a
tribute to the toughness and durability of a woman who lived on this
wild coast before the white man arrived to overwhelm her culture. It
is progressing slowly and can be seen in my studio. Most of my
tapestries are a tribute to something in nature or to an idea
important to me and very personal.
After
years of creating various textiles, blankets, scarves, yarn and
tapestries, I now think a lot about each process and each product and
their relative importance. Whether what I am working on is something
of a practical nature or a tapestry which is not, product and process
will always, for me, have a shifting, inter-related and mysterious
aspect.
-Donna Millen
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