Silence (on Prepared Loom), 2021, edition: 100 copies.
Artist’s book documenting Silence (on Prepared Loom), 2021, Six Jacquard tapestries, Cotton, silk, and polyester yarn stretched on wooden frame, each 210 x 280cm.
With essays by Rye Dag Holmboe and Alex Bacon. Design: Christopher Lawson Limited. Shelf mark at SJC Library, Oxford: ART/900/MOR
These tapestries were woven on a Jacquard loom directly from a 50-minute sound recording made in the garden on the other side of Sprott’s Wall, a boundary shared between the garden and the library. Through the application of a specially written script, the recorded sound was configured to the 'score' for John Cage's 1952 Lecture on Nothing, a spoken word performance that has silence at its core. The garden itself is visible through the single window in the second bay of the reading room and can be regarded as part of the overall piece.