GAIL RUTTER
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The personal and professional aspects of an artist�s life usually go hand-in-hand, with fingers so tightly intertwined that it�s hard to separate the two. I look at life as a path, a sequence of locations on a horizontal line where we stop and explore the vertical for a while, and then move on. To produce art as continuously as possible is crucial to gain the effects of specific locations in place and time on what is created � the evolvement evidence of one�s life work. Two major influences have shaped my life: a drive for creativity and love of the outdoors, elements acquired from parental influence which yielded extensive training, education, and opportunities in both. When I encountered weaving in college, I knew I had found �infinity.� I saw that there was no end to the possibilities for woven fabrics. Weaving, as an art form, melded my strongest learned talent � music � with my strongest natural interest, landscape environment. Weave structures are inherently similar to musical structures, and through a logical affinity to complex weave structures, I was able to weave imagery with designs based upon my fascination with geologic formations, a major theme throughout my work. Both prime aspects of my life � the arts and the outdoors � have had extremely rich involvements and have affected one another profoundly. Boundless details could be the resource for volumes of rhetoric. Simply stated, the side-by-side traveling of these two passions can be likened to a railroad track: both rails necessary, but separate, and joined by ties of experiences that continue to hold the two together.
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