Cat Babbie
Gallant Omens, 2022
Hand dyed wool yarn, tufted 30"x21"
Noble intentions and fortuitous thoughts rumble around our minds and souls. What will they say, what will you say, about the choices to come? What memories are marked for this future?
Cat Babbie
Moments Known, 2022
Hand-dyed wool yarn, machine tufted 23" x 20"
Part of the Future: series, this rug can be presented on the wall or on the floor. Wool yarn was dyed by artist, and hand-finished.
Cat Babbie
Future:Movement, 2020
Hand-dyed wool yarn, machine tufted 32x22x3
Future Movement is part of a series that delves into interpreting movement as color. It is a celebration of hue and a reminder to myself that abstract art is home, that color creation is what moves me to create. Tufting offers an avenue to be both soft and structured, to balance the tension between wanting to touch the artwork, while knowing it is against ‘The Rules’. This series is created by dying the wool yarn myself, which provides subtleties and variations that cannot be found in commercially dyed yarn. Their blue is blue; my blue is aqua, robin’s egg blue, the first blue in the sky in the morning, all in one hank of yarn. Using a yarn-fed power tool called a tufting gun, I create textured textile pieces that are then stretched across custom wood panels. The panels, like our own bones, are the invisible support for each piece.
