Erica Dincalci

Erica! You are a legend of legends for tying on two warps. We enjoyed how much life your work brought to the DWL. From your words below, "vivid atmospheres of color" is certainly correct!
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Weaving on: Collin
Joining us from:  Bay Area, California

Tell us about yourself and what led you to the residency?
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My practice is about exploring how fiber can express the lived experience. I use autobiographical stories as a foundational place to make and create work from. I embrace vivid atmospheres of color, disintegrated patterns and gravitational cloth as a way to excise the demons living in the dark and expunge them into the saturation of technicolor dreams and manifestations of joy.

Have you had any previous experience with Digital Weaving or Jacquard?

Yes, I took a digital weaving class in undergrad at California College of the Arts. More recently, I spent 2 years in the Fiber and Material Studies MFA program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where I used the TC2 to create much of my work. It is wonderful to have access to this loom again and how special Praxis is for providing that. I am excited to weave again.

Any goals for the residency you'd like to share?

I would like to make more yardage of extra fringy colorful weaving and really expanding the fringe and floats and push this process. I am experimenting with disintegration and indecipherability of my patterns and color interactions. I am excited to use more colors, more weave structures and materials.
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See more of Erica on Instagram @ericadincalciart or at www.ericadincalci.com