Hand-woven, hand-dyed tapestry. Wool, cotton.
Rebecca Mezoff, artist
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The Emergence series of tapestries were woven between 2009 and 2016. Two of them were commissions (VI and VIII) and the rest are also in private collections with the exception of Emergence II which is in the collection of Colorado Northwestern Community College.
These works came from my life in the desert southwest. The petroglyph form is one similar to those I saw on the rocks around a place I lived in 2008-2010 which was in the middle of a petroglyph preserve in northern New Mexico. I love the spiral motif and the suggestion of change that happens gradually. I also loved hunting for petroglyphs when I lived in that house!
Rebecca Mezoff, Emergence I, 48 x 48 inches, hand-dyed wool, cotton, 2009; private collection
Rebecca Mezoff, Emergence II, 45 x 45 inches, hand-dyed wool, cotton; collection of Colorado Northwestern Community College
Rebecca Mezoff, Emergence III, 45 x 13 inches, hand-dyed wool, cotton; private collection
Rebecca Mezoff, Emergence IV, 15 x 46 inches, hand-dyed wool, cotton; private collection
Rebecca Mezoff, Emergence V: The Center Place, 45 x 45 inches, hand-dyed wool, cotton; collection of the artist
Rebecca Mezoff, Emergence VI, 16 x 49 inches, hand-dyed wool, cotton; commission for private collection
Rebecca Mezoff, Emergence VII, 45 x 45 inches, hand-dyed wool, cotton; private collection
Rebecca Mezoff, Emergence VIII, 54 x 54 inches, hand-dyed wool, cotton; commision for private collection