Flashcraft

Anna S King, fibre artist

Words – text – are the raw materials which inspire Anna. The coiled basket forms give the words an enclosed environment to live in or rest, waiting for the observant enquirer to investigate.  Decorative additions are there for symbolic as well as aesthetic reasons, fundamental to collected experiences and myths; their purpose is to imbue a sense of place and time, to evoke a memory or to serve as token. Thoughts and ideas are written on scrolls of handmade paper or in tiny books and mostly hidden within the basket. Nothing is arbitrary about the forms: each draws on the memory of ancient techniques.