an emptiness that breathes

an emptiness that breathes

Weaving as thinking. Weaving as creation. Weaving as breathing. The inwards/outwards passage of breath as a symbolic reflection on the gestures of weaving. Weaving depends on constant rhythms and the entanglement of seemingly binary forces; the outwards giving horizontal weft and the inwards receiving vertical warp. Mediating between dualities of presence and absence; fullness and emptiness; active and passive; beginning and ending; giving and receiving, as well as internalities and externalities, Jana Visser seeks a logic of reciprocity and becoming through the framework of her weaving practice. Emptiness, as represented by the warp threads, serves as a site of transformation where becoming and potentiality interweave – where sameness and otherness, or warp and weft meet. With a dynamic presence, it indicates the ability to be filled with content. It inhales. For as long as there is a warp waiting, there is a potential for continuing onwards and a weaving towards possibility.