EMERGENT Woven Placemats

For daily use, quick and easy, placemats are the best way to set a table and pull the family dinner together! It's so many of these little things that make a house a home, just so easy. These placemats are vibrantly printed in a specially treated fade-resistant technique. 14 x 18 IN, poly or cotton twill fabric with hemmed edges, the placemats are easy to clean. Machine wash on a gentle cycle, cold water and mild detergent, air dry.

ABOUT THE PAINTING:

EMERGENT: Acrylic on canvas, 2 x 4 FT.

Emergent means “in the process of coming into being or becoming prominent.” In a burst of color, a big bang, a pulse from nothingness, we explode into being. There are no moments as powerful as birth and many moments that are allegorical to it. This is exemplary to those very moments. It’s messy. It’s volatile. It’s beautiful. It’s rough around the edges. It peals us apart and pulls us together. It’s the ultimate sublime. We emerge.

Into what? Into where? We don’t know until we get there. And, at times, we may not even know were “there-there” is until we long since pass it.

This piece is an attempt at expressing that moment of becoming, the tipping point with which the momentum towards a direction becomes the direction. It’s dynamic. It’s bold. It’s rough and peeling away. It’s EMERGENT.