Ali Holloway
If I Could Tell You, 2023
Hand-woven silk, paper, wire and hemp, hung from a madder-dyed branch
H45 x W75 cm
TAH26
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The dying process used for ‘If I could tell you’ involves space-dying skeins of yarn. Ali binds the yarn with string with the dots and dashes of morse code to...
The dying process used for ‘If I could tell you’ involves space-dying skeins of yarn. Ali binds the yarn with string with the dots and dashes of morse code to spell out words the lines of a poem of the same name by W H Auden. In the act of weaving with the yarn, the words become tangled and the message can no longer be read.
'If I could tell you' is part of a sequence of woven pieces which explore the possibilities and impossibilities of communicating through textiles. Messages are encrypted and the desire to communicate is often thwarted.
