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      Peter Harris of Ontario, Canada, has also referenced past artwork for his Enchanted Forest. (See page 2 and look carefully for the figures.)  He explains that, while the piece is about “repeated motifs and patterns.... in the guise of foliages, the figures are there to evoke a narrative context for this visual jungle. In Indian miniature painting the depiction of foliage often has a repeat pattern, leaf-beside-leaf-beside-leaf, textile quality.  Scenes showing Krishna and Radha may be erotically charged, but are meant to be read as religious allegory.  I wanted to celebrate this landscape with a similar intensity.”

      For many weavers submitting work, the body is used to convey their personal sentiments on a political or subjective issue. In Reach. We Are All Humans, (Image at right) by Pascale DeConnick, who currently lives in Ireland, the hand was designed as part of a triptych.  It is woven in natural black, gray and white wool together, a hand “Reaching across the unknown, across frontiers, towards each other.”  The first item, Face it. We Are All Humans., is the outline of an anomalous face which could be male or female, colored or white. The third image was never woven. Pascale asked for a loom when she was twelve and has been weaving ever since.  However an inhibition that she could not draw kept her from pursuing tapestry until only recently when she “faced” reality and took a drawing class. As she states: “It has been an amazing eye-opener. I can draw and I am hooked on weaving tapestries.”  The placement of her image by Archie’s article is by design.

      Marilyn Rea Menzies, from Christ Church, New Zealand, has created a diptych, She Holds the World in Her Hands, that conveys fractured figures supported by black and white vertical stripes.  The script surrounding the male states: “She holds his world in her hands.” Marilyn intended the age or relationship of the female to be ambiguous. “Is the woman his mother, his sister, or his wife!!!  She could be any of these.  I believe that the women of this world actually ‘hold up’ the men in many various ways.”

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