3chm LARGE SILK AKIHA DEVIDER
Chiaki Maki
malda and dupioni silk,
dyes/anar, red chanda
327" x 27.5", 1998
$1,275
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Chiaki Maki
80% malda and tassar silk,
20% wool, yarn dyed by natural material
82" x 31", 1998
$400
Education:
Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. Maki has worked with artist Junichi Arai in Japan, and with weavers in New Delhi since 1989. In 1990, she started Maki Textile Studio.
Selected exhibition venues:
Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and in Japan, Germany and the United States.
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Statement: I use natural dyes and handspin my yarns. When weaving, I play with the yarns, letting them be free even on the loom. They have a very energetic character which changes their ability as they change their neighborhood. I very much enjoy how the yarns react when differing tensions are placed upon them and when their situations are changed.
When I was weaving as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, I experienced a moment in which I disappeared, and only the weaving remained. The piece that was born of that moment was fascinating, beyond any description. Such a moment is the very heart of my creation.
When touching the yarns, when dyeing with the plants, when throwing the shuttles, no matter where I am, in Japan, in India or in the United States, I disappear, the “no-mind" or “the emptiness" occurs, permitting my work to proceed. Chiaki Maki
