Weaving with Paint - Joseph Awuah-Darko

Joseph Awuah-Darko, June 17, P.M, 2024.

Valuable ideas for my project and the conception of textile and weaving without using textile or weaving:

- Color as language and vocabulary, as inspired by German-born American artist Josef Albers

- Anna Albers, leading textile artist and designer and printmaker, as inspiration for connection between hand-weaving and modern art

- Color changes depending on the mood that also depends on the environment he is in the world, reflective of how environment influences emotions. Migration, displacement, mental health...

- Color allows to express emotions that aren't easy to express in words or specific representation of visuals or symbols

- Weaving as cathartic and meditative practice

- He weaves with painting, but also practice his ancestral, cultural method of weaving from Ghana, how kente fabrics were produced (traditional multi-coloured cloths) -> heritage manifested in work, textile-based, but without using textile.

Bibliography

Dale, Penny. “Joseph Awuah-Darko’s Spreadsheet of Emotion: ‘Bipolar, Colour and Me.’” BBC News, September 14, 2024. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce805y2z47jo

Teaser of Interview on Joseph's Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAdZLaYodyb/?igsh=ZWI3enRrc2hrdTY1