Wave Study in Black and Ivory — Woven Fibre Sculpture, Ghana, 2003

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The Yamayama pattern — one of the most technically demanding forms in the Bolga weaving tradition — creates a surface … Read more The Yamayama pattern — one of the most technically demanding forms in the Bolga weaving tradition — creates a surface that appears to move. As light shifts across the tightly coiled fibres, the alternating bands of deep charcoal and natural ivory produce a visual rhythm that is simultaneously geometric and organic.
Wave Study in Black and Ivory is a wide, open form — a shape that echoes both the bowls of ancient African pottery and the abstract sculptural language of the 20th century. It asks to be placed where light falls across it: a plinth, a low table, a windowsill.

Woven by hand in Bolgatanga, Ghana. Natural elephant grass, plant-dyed fibres. One of a kind. See less