LIFE Newsweave

Erin Curry Art LIFE Weaving

Newsweavings (series excerpt)
handwoven paper yarn and 1960’s LIFE magazines 11×14” (ongoing)
2018-2020

Ever present news cycles can imply everything is new, fresh, urgent. In working with LIFE magazine material from the 60’s and 70’s ongoing sagas of athletes protesting institutional racism and climate change concerns bring the cyclical reality of the news into view, in weaving them in to fresh cloth the old news is remade, illegible, but the same material.

Erin Curry Art Paper Weaving LIFE magazine

“Wake”
1960s LIFE Magazine Strips handwoven with paper yarn

“Digging in for Whatever Time it Takes”
Apr 7, 1967 LIFE Magazine strips handwoven with paper thread

Erin Curry Art LIFE Magazine Weaving "Digging in"

“Digging in for Whatever Time it Takes” detail
LIFE Magazine strips handwoven with paper thread

Erin Curry Art Paper Weaving LIFE magazine "Frustrated herring grass"

“Frustrated / herring grass”
Aug 26, 1966 LIFE Magazine strips handwoven with paper thread

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