Sue Weil
Trip Tix, 2017
cotton, paper 6" x 20'
Three panels woven of strips of paper cut from a Lisbon, Portugal travel magazine. The piece represents a perfect week spent creating memories with my two daughters
Sue Weil
Graffiti, 2021
cotton, wool, tencel, bamboo sticks 12" x 19"
Two handwoven panels, one juxtaposed with the other, share the same palette, similar rhythms, and are blended by a lyric line dancing over their surfaces. The original panels were woven in 2017, but never seemed complete. In 2021, they were re-worked to create Graffiti.
Sue Weil
Real News, 2019
Cotton, wool, newspaper strips, t-shirt strips, tulle, ribbon 45" x 53"
Real News is a tribute to the journalists who, despite attacks levied against them, help protect our democracy by ferreting out and reporting the facts of a story. This triptych is woven in the traditional black and white of our daily newspapers and is designed to reflect columns and images. Materials include cotton, wool, Tencel, fabric scraps, newspaper strips and ribbon.
Sue Weil
Shelter in Place, 2021
cotton, wool, tencel 36" x 21"
The Covid pandemic changed our lives. Gone is the ease with which we led our daily routines. With excessive handwashing, mask-wearing, cessation of hugging, shaking hands, sharing food and drink – we were torn from our relative ease moving through the world. Whether or not shelter-in-place restrictions persist, our sense of safety has been forever altered. “Shelter in Place,” woven in stark black, white and red, represents an isolation experienced by so many, offering but a tiny window’s view from our separate silos.
Sue Weil
Coloring Outside the Lines, 2022
cotton, wool, tencel 42" x 21"
Between the Covid pandemic, the worldwide effects of climate change as evidenced by hurricanes, drought, floods and fires, the increasing imposition of repressive laws on populations around the world, it seemed important to focus on something uplifting. Coloring Outside the Lines celebrates the strength of the human spirit … IN … FULL … COLOR.
Sue Weil
Life Without CHOICE, 2022
cotton, wool, tencel 30" x 46"
When 50 years of precedent is upended, it's impossible to remain silent. The overturning of Roe v Wade is an assault on women's rights, threatening the lives, livelihoods and dreams of countless women and girls. Life Without CHOICE, addresses this in stark black, white and red jagged contours.
Sue Weil
Bringing the Outside In, 2021
Cotton, wool, Tencel, tulle 23" x 63"
This tapestry was commissioned by a family who wanted there to be no separation between the natural world outside their living room window and the flow of life inside their home. Decades earlier, they’d lost their father while he was hiking in the hills. This piece suggests the silhouette of mountains and the greenery of the surrounding landscape in tribute to their father who died in the place he loved most.
Sue Weil
To All the Beautiful Souls Lost, 2020
Cotton seine twine warp, wool and cotton weft 38" x 33"
“To All the Beautiful Souls Lost,” is dedicated to the young and old, rich and poor, famous and faceless who died of Covid-19. Many died without loved ones nearby. During this time of extreme change, social unrest and an untamed pandemic, I hoped to honor each person as an individual who was loved, who was valued, and who will be forever missed.
Sue Weil
Rising Seas and Wildfires: Our Planet in Crisis, 2018
cotton, wool 69" h x 62" w
This tapestry sheds a spotlight on climate change and the dangers it poses for us today and for future generations. In each panel of this triptych, the pulled warp technique creates 3-D features. In the center panel, it’s used to simulate waves of sea level rise while the red flares in the middle of the two outer panels represent wildfires. Wrapped yarn bundles, choreographed over a background the color of dry grasses, represent the wildfires destroying great swaths of the Western United States and other regions around the globe.
Sue Weil
Vanishing …, 2020
cotton, wool, bamboo fiber 4' h x 3' w
“Vanishing …” speaks to a disappearing world; once lost, it’s a world we cannot reclaim. In this abstract depiction of warming seas and glacial melt, is a kind of loneliness; a diminishing form adrift in the sea. Yet from horizon to ocean, it appears almost pure and pristine. We were given the gift of this beautiful planet – ours to keep or destroy.