“My process of making is closely related to both drawing and to the history of utilitarian feminine craft. Repetitive and meditative acts—wrapping, poking, folding, stacking, hooking, pulling—all make space for quiet association and attentiveness.”
Wendy Kawabata is an artist who has travelled and lived for periods in diverse and far-flung places and is now based in Hawaii. Time spent in each place taking in the life, climate, landscape and culture emerges in unexpected and satisfying ways in her work. Most consistent is the deliberately controlled scale that allows for a practice that is flexible, mobile and ready. While holding on robustly to its integrity Kawabata’s work is never finite and remains open to the possibility of change and adaptation according to circumstance.
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