DREAM WEAVINGS: Cut from the Same Cloth
L. Shannon Slee, Blue Reflex #1, wool, rug yarn remnant from Amanda, jute, cotton warp, timber, painted steel, leather, 180 x 80 cm, 2025
R. Shannon Slee, Blue Reflex #2, wool, mesh remnant from Jasmine, jute, cotton warp, timber, painted steel, leather, 146 x 80 cm, 2025.
L. Shannon Slee, Left to Link #1, hessian remnant, wool, jute, cotton warp, timber, painted steel, leather, 150 x 80 cm, 2025.
R. Shannon Slee, Left to Link #2, wool, corduroy, jute, cotton warp, timber, painted steel, leather, 180 x 80 cm, 2025.
L. Shannon Slee, String of Geese #1, wool, jute, cotton warp, copper, painted steel, 110 x 50 x 21, 2025.
R. Shannon Slee, String of Geese #2, wool, cotton selvedge remnant from Britt, jute, cotton warp, copper, painted steel, 106 x 50 x 21 cm, 2025
DREAM WEAVINGS: Cut from the Same Cloth are three pairs of weavings that rely on a simple, rug-style plain weave. My own hand-spun wool forms part of the weft, connected with fabric remnants and discarded clothing. These weavings are interpretations of dreams and unconscious states, in which I replicate shapes recalled from my own sleep. This work seeks to unlock hidden meanings concealed from the waking mind, within dreams, through the ancient, coded technology of weaving.
The paired forms hope for a dialogue between opposing states: waking and sleeping, warp and weft, new and discarded, the known and the unknown. Within these tensions, geometry and time are stretched and abstracted.
Presented as part of Me and the girls don’t Want to be Boxed
Five Walls Project Space
Britt Salt & Shannon Slee
June 2025
See Catalogue of show here.
All images by Astrid Mulder