La Casa del Tío Güero

Michael F. Rohde

38.5 x 32 inches

2020

ARTIST STATEMENT

My approach to tapestry weaving is to work within the structure of woven cloth, and to honor the grid as a primary design element. Hence, as I keep my eyes on the things I see, new ideas come to mind. On my fourth trip to Oaxaca recently, I was drawn to the colors and geometries of building facades. Back in the studio, I cropped photos and reduced them to a series of squares, maintaining a sense of the original, though not as a pictorial copy. La Casa del Tío Güero is a restaurant in Ciudad Oaxaca, with intriguing colors that provided a challenge to approximate with natural dyes.

MATERIALS

Wool, natural dyes

Hand woven tapestry