The following works are early works done from 1991-1992* as part of research in traditional and contemporary Japanese Textile art and part of Japan Foundation Research Fellowship Grant spent at Kyoto Seika University and Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
One of a kind soft and pliable tapestry sculptures were woven in period of few months and were always accompanied by paintings. The works are hand woven, hand died in a small room in Japan, Kyoto.The warp was wire allowing the flat woven surface to take custom and variable shape that would be dependant and responsive to given architecture.The motif was inspired after kimono a Japanese traditional garment. The waving was done 5-8 hours a day, seven days a week. The rest of the time was devoted to studying Japanese Language.
Paintings were layered and built from multiple collaged canvases, to compensate for minimal and simple woven shapes and elegant motifs of vertical and horizontal woven structures.
* extended to 1993 due to war in yugoslavia
Exhibitions
- 13.03-13.04.1995 Japanese Myths Smelt Gallery,[“Japonski Miti” Galerija Smelt] Ljubljana, Slovenia, Europe (solo)
- 02-28.02.1995 Japanese Myths Art Gallery Maribor – Exhibition Hall Rotovz [“Japonski Miti” Razstavni Salon Rotovz Maribor]Slovenia, Europe (solo)
- 16.02-12.03.1994 Painting and Tapestry Kompas Gallery [“Japonske Ljubezni, Slike in Tapiserije” Galerija Kompas], Ljubljana, Slovenia, Europe (solo)
- 21.11.2004 12th Annual Discovery Tour Celebrating a Dozen Years of Art, The Arroyo Arts Collective, Los Angeles, USA Co-sponsored by the Historical Society of Southern California (group exhibit)
- 10.10-23.10.1992 International Textile Art Suminoe Interior Plaza, Osaka, Japan (group exhibit)