Libby Raab
Trunk Interrupted, 2023
Fine Art Paper 17" w x 23" h
Working with the strong geometry of a tree trunk photo, this paper weave is as much as about weaving as it is about “unweaving”.
Libby Raab
Evolving Identity, 2025
Cold Press Fine Art Paper, Paper Raffia 30" w x 32"h
This paper and raffia weave captures that moment when one form evolves into another. Starting with a minimalist, monochromatic weave pattern on the left, and traversing a bridge of delicate strips, the familiar dissolves. On the right, complexity emerges - intricate patterns and new colors, mark the completion of this metamorphosis.
Libby Raab
Good Times, 2023
Fine Art Paper, Paper Raffia 13" w x 20"h
‘Good Times' explores the tension between decay and preservation through the interplay of natural and digital elements. Photographs of melting ice shadows, enhanced with color gradients and digital textures, evoke the patina of age and weathering. The woven structure becomes a metaphor for memory—some areas "scarred" with paper raffia, while others reveal deliberate gaps, like details lost to time. The weave is a scaffold of sorts. It is a base frame for the additive and subtractive layers that tell its stories. It is an interplay between the natural and digital worlds with the paper strips and raffia representing the organic, tactile natural world, and the manipulated (color and texture) photos representing the synthetic, digital world.
