Suzumi noda biography sample

Artist's Statement

I made my artwork with wool in the 1980's. In order to know the culture of sheep I visited inner Mongolia. Thenomadic life is simple and homely with respect to their self-sufficiency. I became aware that I shouldn't go out of my way to use imported wool because I can get more familiar materials from the daily life around me, for example, packing materials, labels and other discarded rubbish.

I live in Osaka, which doesn't have fields which yield wool or cotton.

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I use junk materials to recreate more delicate and sensitive objects using my own knitting technique whereby I can easily deconstruct and reconstruct.

I use junk materials but I think we shouldn't make light of junk materials. New ideas, new thinking emerges from new ways of juxtaposing junk materials which have lost their value, with exclusive materials - for example, in my current work, I combine fabric pattern cards which modern weaving technology has superceded, with very expensive lacquer thread.

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