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Blair Tate
Fragment, a verb and a noun, is defined as
action and artifact. In weaving Fragment
(Reading Between the Lines), Blair Tate
produced elements to reconfigure. Broad
woven strips are subdivided by double-wo-
ven casings and further broken into larger,
coarser woven blocks and smaller, finer
scale blocks. These blocks are framed with
correspondingly heavier and thinner con-
necting cords. When tied, they are both
orderly and disorderly, messy, partially ob-
scuring the clean geometries. Much of the
field is blank – a cream color, toned by the
dark grey warp. Colored elements pop up
– setting up smaller compositions that echo
across the field, recording the splintering of
communities. In Fragment, there is balance
and imbalance, an irregular profile, internal
voids. The piece could expand or shrink. “I
want the whole to feel tenuous, unsettled,”
Tate says, “and in this way allude to the
ubiquitous condition of change that defines
our current times.”
21bt Fragment
woven and knotted linen, hemp cords, aluminum rods
34” x 44”, 2025
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