MICHAEL F. ROHDE
My approach to handwoven tapestry is to recognize the grid imposed by the loom. For me, this leads to an examination of what are ways in which information can be conveyed, absent a recognizable image. For this group of tapestries, I imagined a new language and represented it in tapestry, that might also be seen as a computer code. Rather than expecting the units of each to be a word by word message, color choices and pattern arrangement symbolically convey the concept named in each title.
