Weaving Based Works

2021

handwoven tencel, fiber reactive dyes

2021

handwoven tencel, fiber reactive dyes

2021

handwoven tencel, fiber reactive dyes

2021

handwoven tencel, fiber reactive dyes

2021

handwoven tencel, fiber reactive dyes

2021

handwoven tencel, fiber reactive dyes

2020

tencel, fiber reactive dyes

2019

tencel, fiber reactive dyes, wood

2019

tencel, fiber reactive dyes, wood

T. Marie King is an activist, speaker and trainer focused on creating pathways to healing, teaching nonviolence and building a better global community. She loves working with college students and hopes to one day be a semester long guest lecturer at every Ivy League School in America. T. Marie also considers herself a film snob, loves hip hop culture and is an avid reader. Her main goal is to leave the world better than you received it.

2019

tencel, fiber reactive dyes, wood

40 x 25 x 1.5”

Both the title and image play upon the idea of vagueness. Who is the subject floating against a non-existent background, and why is he hiding his face? We obscure some of what we show others, and what people do see of us is obscured by their own perceptions and views.

2018

tencel, fiber reactive dyes, wood

45 x 61 x 1.5”

The quick speed of social media and the twenty-four hour news cycle can prevent people from pausing to listen and think about what someone is saying before the next flash of immediacy is placed on them. The laborious task of painting text on woven cloth, unweaving it, and then overlapping it with other text, leaves the messages nearly illegible and somewhat scrambled. In the overlapped text of the central panel, the viewer finds sentence fragments that jumble what each of the side panels say.2018

2019

tencel, fiber reactive dyes, ink, wood

40 x 25 x 1.5”

This work contains a quote from August Spies as he stood on the gallows. August Spies was a labor activist and union organizer. He, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons were executed on November 11, 1887 for their roles in the May 3 and 4, 1886 strike outside the McCormick Harvest Machine Plant in Haymarket Square, Chicago. This piece looks at the way immigrants and laborers have shaped the current work laws we take for granted. A blurry silhouette with messy text emphasizes the urgency with which they were working, as well as the anonymity of many workers. Although a historic subject, its story reflects current views on immigrants and labor.

2019

tencel, cotton, hardware, fiber reactive dyes

Journalists around the world and within the United States are being silenced for speaking out. In 2019 Reporters without Boarders classified the United States press freedoms as ‘problematic.’

Spanish language investigative reporter Manuel Duran was held in ICE custody for 465 days at the Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden, Alabama. Duran has been seeking asylum status in the US from El Salvador since 2006 where he was recieving threats for his reporting there. He was arrested in April of 2018 while covering a local protest in Memphis, Tennessee.

This work was on display during part of Duran’s detention in the Gadsden Musuem of Art in Etowah County for a show called Fabric of Society.

2017

tencel, plain weave painted warp and weft, fiber reactive dyes, cotton, brass hardware.

25 x 50”

2017

tencel, plain weave painted warp and weft, fiber reactive dyes, silk embroidery.

36 x 24”

2016

tencel and silk, plain weave and 4 harness weave, painted warp and weft, fiber reactive dyes.

24” x 55”

Undated and unlabeled, the photos that this work is based on show a young girl in two different images: one plain-faced and stoic, and the other more animated and smiling. At the corner of one image is a dark blur of hair, possibly the mother trying to duck down out of sight of the shot. The contrast between the two poses is intriguing, creating a story and letting the viewer peer past the curtain of a photo booth.

2016

tencel, plain weave, fiber reactive dyes, handwoven silk, cotton thread, glass beads, found photograph

17 x 13” (23 x 17” framed)

Possibly a layout photograph for a school year book, the dates set a time, but the subject remains anonymous. The color choices in recreating the photograph prompt and influence the viewer to see the person more subjectively than objectively. Similarly, what one is told about a person can effectively color a memory of a person or event.

2016

tencel, plain weave, fiber reactive dyes, handwoven silk, dyed silk thread, glass beads, found photograph.

17 x 13” (23 x 17” framed)

2016

tencel, plain weave painted warp and weft, fiber reactive dyes

18 x 13” (23 x 17” framed)

2016

tencel, plain weave painted warp and weft, fiber reactive dyes

26 x 19” (34 x 23” framed)

Based on a single found photograph from a photo booth strip, this image is one from a series of four. Not having seen the other three, and not knowing what they pictured, I do not know why this one was separated from the rest. The relationship between the two women and who they are is unknown to me.

2016

tencel, plain weave painted warp and weft, fiber reactive dyes, silk embroidery

26 x 19” (34 x 23” framed)

In titling this piece, I gave my grandparents a singular heart. I imagine they made each other whole, where once they may have previously felt incomplete. They both experienced the tragic death of a parent at a very young age, which must have been a bonding point for them.

2016

tencel, plain weave painted warp and weft, fiber reactive dyes

17 x 13” (23 x 17” framed)

When You Were Younger is a companion piece to When You Were Older. The images are taken from passport photographs of my maternal grandmother in 1952 and 1991. There is an apparent happiness in the photographs of her when she lived in Sri Lanka and her husband was still alive. In later photographs, that smile was replaced by a weary look after his death. I hope to have captured the contrast of these two times in her life.

2016

tencel, plain weave painted warp and weft, fiber reactive dyes, silk embroidery

17 x 13” (23 x 17” framed)

2015

tencel, plain weave painted warp and weft, fiber reactive dyes, silk embroidery

19 x 15” framed

2015

tencel, plain weave painted warp and weft, fiber reactive dyes, silk embroidery

18 x 13” framed

The title is both a play on the Holy Trinity and a reference to family relationships and occupational choices. My grandfather became a vicar in the Anglican Church and served for many years in Sri Lanka. I created an internal story that his choice to become a vicar and not serve in World War Two was partly due to his own father’s death in World War One. The truth may be different, but I still wonder how the ghost of his father may have influenced his life choices.

2014

tencel, plain weave painted warp and weft, fiber reactive dyes

14 x 12”, 14 x 16” framed

2015

tencel, plain weave painted warp and weft, fiber reactive dyes

15 x 10” , 17.5 x 12.5” framed

2014

tencel, plain weave painted warp and weft, fiber reactive dyes

11 x 11” , 13 x 13” framed

2014

9 x 7.5”, 13 x 13” framed

tencel, plain weave painted warp and weft, fiber reactive dyes

Widowed by World War One, she raised an infant son and working as a school teacher. Her husband is the subject of the work titled William.

2015

tencel, plain weave painted warp and weft, fiber reactive dyes

9 x 17.75”, 11.5 x 20” framed

With no body recovered from the Battle of the Somme, my great-grandmother hoped her husband was wrongly recorded as DIA, and that he was actually MIA and would one day walk in the house to explain the mistake.

2015

Jacquard woven- tapestry loom, hand embroidery

2013

Jacquard woven, hand embroidery

9 x 6.5", 21.5 x 15.5 framed

2011

Jacquard woven cotton, spun sari silk remnant yarn, cotton embroidery thread

19 x 16" framed