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Authors
Janeiro, Janis
Issue Date
1976
Type
Capstone
Language
en
Keywords
Fiberworks , Lone Mountain College
Alternative Title
Abstract
Like a potter who takes a wheel-thrown pot and then proceeds to cover it with layer upon layer of clay slabs to create a given form, my work is a layering on of techniques and ideas.
I became aware of the importance, to me, of the concept of layering in examining in retrospect some of my early work. Layering had a physical reality In those pieces--one actual layer overhanging another. Once I became consciously aware that I was manipulating physical layers, and recognized that my fascination was with the application of one thing being superimposed upon another, that idea then became more abstract and took on a broader meaning. Involved In this concept is the process whereby my thinking and my work develop: there is a movement from the unconscious, intuitive state to one of conscious recognition to perhaps what may be termed a "supraconscious" or "aconscious" state where the understanding is internalized and need not be consciously manipulated or articulated. One can then proceed to the next "layer"-- the bringing to consciousness of the new idea, the new understanding, and the spiral moves on-- layer upon preceding layer.
The problem, then, in developing a body of work and writing a documentation of it Is that I am not dealing with a single technique or the expression of a single idea. What I am expressing is a movement--the development from idea to
multiple idea; and this paper will be an attempt to explain how one piece grows out of another--how as one idea becomes consciously understood, it then becomes internalized and becomes the basis for the next idea.