Joel Terry

Punk Rock Loom

This project was site specific and so I chose my body as the site. In doing so I arranged my loom to fit between my wrist and my waist, creating a webbing between them.  The warp and the weft are both copper wire, the warp being thick and the weft being fine copper wire.  The woven structure is created from the negative space between my arm and waist to being a free standing positive structure of its own.  I am interested in negative space transitioning into positive space and its relations to the body.  My material choice is copper, a metal used in circuitry and industry, contradictory to the body as an organic biological creature.  The copper served as a coating or addition for short time to my body in the process of this project making me feel bionic as I was hindered in my movements throughout the process of weaving. After I removed the loom from my body I felt free from the copper, yet for a short time retained a memory of its presence.