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Anne Wilson
Rewinds, 2010

“From a larger social perspective, the rewind project addresses issues that exist within highly technological societies (a renewed enthusiasm for hand crafting and tactility in response to digital screen culture) and most of the world where objects such as these rewinds represent conditions of labor, economic survival, and a very non-romantic presence of the endlessly busy hand. In fundamentally clashing social, economic, and cultural contexts — from the Tibetan refugee weaving studios in northern India, to European couture workshops, to the weaving studios in western art schools — fiber rewinds exist as objects of similar function and practical resourcefulness. They are how textile workers save small lengths of fiber for later re-use. In Wilson’s sculpture, the medium of glass fixes the process in time and elicits meditation on highly disparate cultural contexts about art, cloth, and cultural production.” 

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