Katie Vota
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Living Life as an Artist
So much of my work is cyclical. I work in weaving, I work in paper. I look to structure as a reference; I look to phenomena in nature. I go in close and then pull back to “see” my work and the things that inspire me. And then it repeats. I began my current work with the sensation of dappled light filtering through trees. I tried to recreate its look in double cloth weaving, using drawing techniques to evoke the same feeling in the viewer. However, solid cloth was too heavy. I later revisi