A Web of Questions

I've already posted about this work in progress here. Today I met the artist, Ashley, while she and her friend, Rachael, were working on the installation. The untitled piece arose from an assignment in her class on the theme of "dinner memories." For Ashley, who grew up in poverty, there are no family dinner memories. "Instead we spent our time stressing over how we were going to get our next groceries." All these worries Ashley described as a web of questions, a web still enmeshing her today.

Ashley immediately conceived her theme as a large installation in space; "It had to be large, not just some little thing, because it's not a little thing to me." Ashley's design takes advantage of space to enable viewer participation; people will be able to actually enter into the artwork once it's completed.

The initial concept was for a tunnel, but there simply was not enough space to make one. Ashley realized she could take advantage of the corner of the flex room to create the large woven installation instead.