Kelly Thompson
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    • Water Series
    • Translation Series 2012-13
    • Here, There, Everywhere 2011-12
    • Receipt Series - 2012
    • Orientation 2010-11
    • Jacquard Tapestry 2005-09
    • Traces 2006-08
    • Peninsula Strips 2006
    • Terror Towels 2003
    • Locus Operandi 2000-01
    • Local Readings 1998-2000
    • Passages and Postcards 1996-98
    • Parallel Crossings 1995-96
    • In Transit 1992-94
    • River Series 1990-91
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Installation View. 'Parallax:Landscapes in Translation' (September 2014) FoFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal. Photo Credit: Guy L'Heureux
The Water Series captures a transitory moment in each piece, a grounded but fluid experience translated into material form.  The translations of place, especially the space between land and water have been a subject of my work for some years. Woven on a special jacquard loom setup in which the majority of the colour is fixed in the warp, these threads are structurally combined to create new blends and optical mixes. Proximity and distance plays a new role in viewing, as is experienced in the original location source. The mood of light and location is distilled and processed: from a digital photograph elements are selected and converted by the artist through specialist textile software, then woven on a hand jacquard loom. Place is represented not through fixed, recognizable landmarks, but capturing a temporality, a memory, rendered as material.
Water Series  2013
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Photo credit: Richard-Max Tremblay
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