Spin wool roving into yarn with a diy drop spindle. Spinning offers access to easy repairs. Weaving grounds you to the present moment, where you can only look so far forward and accepting mistakes is necessary. The hunger we go to our phones with and how making may provide more satiation. Your consumption is your first clue to your unique making pathways.
About Margot: Margot Becker is an artist, weaver, and educator based in Hudson, NY. Her work explores sense of place, the natural environment, and the connection between the individual and the communal subconscious. Through tactile processes, she questions our understanding of sustainability, the value of labor and the role of handcraft in late capitalism. Her weaving practice originated from a desire to understand the origins of cloth and the lives affected by it. In 2010, Margot embarked on a study to understand the process of creating textiles from start to finish. Following the belief that to know your production line, you must be your production line, this project became an all-encompassing life practice- incorporating animal husbandry, yarn spinning technologies and fine hand weaving. Her work has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. She received her BA from Bard College and her MFA from California College of the Arts
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Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com
