RUTH SCHEUING
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    • Ada Lovelace 1997-2017
    • Flowers and Leaves 1998-2004
    • Women and Myth 2000-2018
    • Codes 2017
    • new 2020/21
    • Flying Women 2021
    • flying goddeses, monsters and women
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    • White Pieces 2007-13
    • GPS tracks prints 2008-13
    • Silkroads 2010/11
    • Stitched GPS 2007
    • digital threads webproject 2007
    • satelite images 2007
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    • altered men's suits 1990's
    • Metal Busts 1993-98
    • Text/textiles 1995-98
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    • Weaving Cultural Identities 2017-19
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Flowers and Leave or Nature, Technology, Women and Cyborgs:
Jacquard Weavings
that explore floral patterns as domestic decoration

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Flowers and Leaves #11: cyclamen 2003, 60 x 40".

The definitions of ‘nature’ reveal a range of contradictory meanings. Nature often suggests that, which is separate from human activity and is used to project desires seemingly unattainable, thus “nature becomes romanticized, patronized and forever the passive recipient of our desires”. Donna Harraway in the Cyborg Manifesto proposes more fluid boundaries between humans, animals and machines instead of defining them as opositional or binary positions. Computers and weaving have been connected by Sadie Plant in ‘Zeros and Ones’ and weaving, of course, is always a digital process.
I am also interested in exploring issues of ‘decoration’ and its relationship to the ‘feminine’ reflected textiles. I use Muybridge’s images from the 19th century, which show women doing mostly domestic or mundane tasks. They explore/contradict assumptions between nature, culture and technology as gendered fields.
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Tansy: or what is Nature: 2002, 75 x 40"
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Flowers and Leaves #20: muy.broom 2003, 63 x 40"

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.....when women skip (in) paradise, 2002, 76 x 40",
Jacquard weaving



Flowers and Leaves #2: Cyborg women weave translucent thought....1998, 72 x 40" Jacquard weaving
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  • Home
  • Jacquard weavings
    • Ada Lovelace 1997-2017
    • Flowers and Leaves 1998-2004
    • Women and Myth 2000-2018
    • Codes 2017
    • new 2020/21
    • Flying Women 2021
    • flying goddeses, monsters and women
  • GPS tracks
    • White Pieces 2007-13
    • GPS tracks prints 2008-13
    • Silkroads 2010/11
    • Stitched GPS 2007
    • digital threads webproject 2007
    • satelite images 2007
  • older works
    • altered men's suits 1990's
    • Metal Busts 1993-98
    • Text/textiles 1995-98
  • Projects
    • Honey Hooser Loom ongoing
    • Writings
    • TAD ongoing
    • Weaving Cultural Identities 2017-19
  • Bio/CV
  • Contact