" Patience is a virtue. Possess it if you can . ..." Inspired by Homer's classic "The Odyssey, Patience is both a narrative and a metaphoric textile art tower celebrating one of life's virtues. The four pillared structure tells the story of Penelope, the loyal wife of Odysseus. She spends twenty years at home waiting for his return from war and his travels and rejecting the attention of 108 suitors by pretending to weave a shroud for her father -in-law. She was able to ward off the suitors by stating that when she had finished weaving, she would attend to them, but little did they know that every night she undid her day’s work and the shroud was never finished. I have always been fascinated by Penelope's story - her patience, her loyalty and of course her cleverness. I printed the story on tea bag paper and used the paper as the warp of the weaving to emphasise the transient nature of her waiting. For the “walls” I chose wool a...
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