Emma’s woven works depict brain frequencies
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Here’s showcasing two woven tapestries by Latvia-based artist Emma Sofia. Emma’s artistic journey spans across various mediums – from classic tapestry, digital weaving, tufting to painting. The purpose of Emma’s first project that we are featuring here, was to visualize brain frequencies that occurred during a period of high stress in her life. Her second project depicts the frequencies of the tinnitus noise that she’d been struggling with…
Works…
Pressure Limit (2019)
Two woven pieces
Materials: Wool, Polyester
Size: 3m x 1.5m
Pressure Limit is a work that depicts the invisible frequencies in the artist’s mind, as visible textiles. Emma’s digital tapestries display frequencies that date back to the time that she had severe headaches, that occurred during a period of stress. The artist uses “cymatics” as a tool for the development of ideas that allow for the visualization of these invisible frequencies. The resulting materials were visually manipulated and reproduced as digital tapestries.
Tumult (2017)
Triptych, composed of three vertically digitally woven tapestries
Materials: Wool, Cotton
Size: 3.8m x 1.5m
Tumult is based on the sounds that we hear around us; every person perceives them differently as well as different visualizations of it. The author ponders over how it would be, if she could hear clear sounds without the constant ringing in her ears. She feels that living with noises in your head, which nobody around you hears, makes you feel “special” in some kind of way, well atleast relatively!
Faced with the eagerness to suppress the Tinnitus noise, the author tried various techniques to minimize the ringing sounds – starting from medical advice training to frequency meditation. After noticing the results of her attempts at minimizing the sounds with frequency healing, the author created a visualization of these frequencies using cymatics. Combining topics such as space vibrations, cymatics, and tinnitus healing, the author created a visual representation of planet noises that helped tinnitus.
About…
Emma Sofia has graduated from the Riga School of Design and Art, Art Academy of Latvia (BA, MA in Textile Art). She’s also studied in Norway, at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen, and the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. As of now, she is pursuing an MA at the painting department at the Art Academy of Latvia. Emma has conducted solo exhibitions of her works and also participated in several group exhibitions in Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Belarus, Slovenia and USA. She has also received numerous awards, nominations and recognitions for her works. Her works are in the collection of Latvian LOTO, Upītes Cultural Space, and the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design.
Links…
Text and pics courtesy: Emma Sofia
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