Draweaves are a new form of weaving using pressure-sensitive (adhesive) tape to create artworks.
Series
Draweaves
Created
2023 - ongoing
Medium
Adhesive tape on various surfaces
Dimensions
Varied
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“Draweave” is an umbrella term I have coined to speak about a new medium I am developing, that of weaving with pressure-sensitive (adhesive) tape. It combines the words “drawing” with “weaving”. As I develop a visual and structural language using tape, I am also exploring the history of cloth to craft, diaspora, labour and globalization—themes that resonate with my wider practice.
In developing adhesive tape as an artistic medium, I am drawn to its unique and poetic qualities. The “stickiness” of tape lends itself not just to an ability to doubly reinforce a fabric-like surface (through tack and tension), it also suggests ideas of repair, restriction, fragility, impermanence, entanglement, relationality, and deconstruction. In making these, I consistently ask “what can tape do that string can’t?” This question helps me identify ways that I can work with tape outside the rules of weaving.