Studio progress - DEMO "Three Weavers: Penelope, Arachne, Philomela."

Initial hang with the three clothes racks. Spacing okay, need to cut down wooden supports so they don’t show either end. And paint white so they disappear into the wall. In order to hide the clothes racks, I need to arrange hanging fabric around the white metal. And perhaps get rid of the pegs or “age” the pegs, or overuse the pegs. (Also, pegs used to prop up the other paintings in conversation with these). Three women who communicated through weaving because they weren’t able to otherwise.

Penelope: widow, suitors, patriarchal system, queen but not King. Making and unmaking her shroud to avoid continuing on with the system. She had no voice, so she initiated a PAUSE but unravelling the shroud.

Arachne: Entered into a weaving competition with Athena (a god), produced a superior design (of the frailty of the gods), and was condemned to forever weave by being turned into a spider.

Philomela: raped by her sister’s husband and then had her tongue cut out to silence her. She wove a tapestry and sent it to her sister to tell of the crime. Then was changed into a Nightingale. To sing a melancholy song.