Pandemic
Pandemic
2020
144″ x 84″
Yarn, Rope, String, Felt, Fabric, Shoestrings
This piece was designed and created during the Covid-19 quarantine. Not only is the color indicative of the dark feelings many people faced during this time, but with stores closed shopping for yarns became uneasy; so I created this piece out of all the black yarns, fabrics, and ropes that I already had in my stash.
My hope was to convey the dark and heavy feelings that were slowly creeping over people as they made their way through these unprecedented times.
Pictured: Pandemic displayed in a resident home. Originally designed to traverse over multiple turning surfaces, it can still make quite the statement in one corner.
Erika Hewston, Milford, PA
Erika Hewston is a textile artist from Reading, Pennsylvania who focuses in weaving. She creates richly colored textural wall hangings as well as fine woven wearable scarves and ties:
“I work primarily as a handweaver making both fine woven wearables and texturally saturated wall pieces. All of my work focuses on the interaction of vibrant colors to create striking statement pieces. My scarves and ties are all comprised of cotton, bamboo rayon, and tencel to ensure a soft product with beautiful drape. My wall pieces are a mixture of any fibrous materials I can gather within the desired color range: cotton, fleece, felt, twine, tule, acrylic, burlap, and others. This vast array of materials allows me to create pieces that are immersed in texture creating both a visual and tactile exploration for the viewer.”
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