Day Day Five: Intertwined had a soft opening today at the Method Gallery noon to 5 pm. Everything came together exactly at 11:55 am. Signage—check. Floor swept—check. Artist statement framed—check. The getting-ready energy flowed beautifully […]
Day Four: What glorious feeling! After weeks of finger-looping over 12 miles of twine and trying to imagine how the work might take shape, it happened. Today, my “imaginary geography” […]
Day Three: Not in my worst nightmare could I have predicted the collapse of Intertwined during its making. But it happened, without warning. I was speechless. The suspended mass of twine ripped from […]
Day Two: It might look like chaos. However, what I created in the far corner yesterday presented me with clarity this morning. I knew instantly that I wanted to go off book. Rather than suspending […]
Day One: Empty gallery. I started with the far corner. It offered the perfect sightline for articulating a sense of distance. Perfect—except for the bench. My first order of business was to […]
Day Zero: Sunday in the heart of Pioneer Square — yea — free parking right smack in front of Method Gallery. Not bad. I’m stunned that I was able to […]
There’s no space to go at my house—except in my head. Twine has invaded every nook and cranny of my studio, the guest bedroom, and now the living room is endangered, too.
The artist Paul Klee spoke of taking a line for a walk. My impulse has long been to take a line for a twirl and do it again and again and […]
People ask about the role of repetition in my work. Conceptually, it’s my desire to create wholes of small parts, the way nature grows itself—accretion, aggregation, building up, layering. Maybe repetition […]
Two days ago, I became keenly aware of how my gestures involved in shaping wire armatures developed a rhythm. It’s different but similar to my process of finger-looping twine. It reminded me of writings […]
Gerri Sayler Artist 