Pattern is how a story gets carried. Woven in Color finds three standing figures in embroidered dress before a wall of horizontal color bands, red-orange at the top stepping down through yellow and green to teal, with four tall pale-blue stepped motifs rising behind them like trees. The center figure balances a bowl shaped like a watermelon on her head and holds a smaller figure close in front of her. At left, a figure bows her head to cradle a bowl of red fruit, and at right, a figure in a checked headscarf and dark dress holds a rifle.
The eye lands first on the center figure's face and the bowl above it, then fans left and right along the red and orange embroidered chest panels, which tie the figures together. The blue motifs pull the eye upward, while the dark right-hand figure counters the bright left. Neighboring murals, a pink and black panel at left and a magenta block at right, frame the piece without competing with it.
The color logic is Ernst Haas territory: flat, saturated fields doing the work that light usually does, here set against fine, hand-stitched pattern.
Design & Styling
Woven in Color suits libraries and universities, cultural and community centers, restaurants, and eclectic residential interiors that want a figurative piece with real pattern and story. The rifle in the right-hand figure's hands makes it less suited to healthcare or children's spaces.
Curated Pairings
To build a wall around this piece, consider these companion pieces:
For the same pattern and color logic: Pair with Woven Gold, streaks of green, gold, amber, and rust woven into a single field, the same idea of color built from repeated threads, in a very different subject.
For the same theme of woven culture: Pair with Aghaałą́ — Where the Wool Gathers, a landmark whose Navajo name refers to wool, another image where weaving and place are connected.
For the same tenderness: Pair with A Gentle Lesson, a young boy offering an open palm to a black horse, a small figure held in a gesture of care, the same quiet tenderness that sits at the center of this mural, though in a very different setting.
Fine Art Presentation
Available as an open edition print, unsigned and unnumbered, in ChromaLuxe® Metal (gloss, semi-gloss, or matte), Glossy Anti-Glare Acrylic (TruLife), canvas, wood, and archival paper (framed or unframed). ChromaLuxe® Metal (matte) is the recommended presentation: the matte finish keeps the rainbow bands from reflecting the room while the flat saturated fields stay crisp. Archival paper is the alternative for a hand-painted, more textural read.
Note: This is an open edition print, unsigned and unnumbered, available in the sizes and materials listed above.
Pattern is how a story gets carried. Woven in Color finds three standing figures in embroidered dress before a wall of horizontal color bands, red-orange at the top stepping down through yellow and green to teal, with four tall pale-blue stepped motifs rising behind them like trees. The center figure balances a bowl shaped like a watermelon on her head and holds a smaller figure close in front of her. At left, a figure bows her head to cradle a bowl of red fruit, and at right, a figure in a checked headscarf and dark dress holds a rifle.
The eye lands first on the center figure's face and the bowl above it, then fans left and right along the red and orange embroidered chest panels, which tie the figures together. The blue motifs pull the eye upward, while the dark right-hand figure counters the bright left. Neighboring murals, a pink and black panel at left and a magenta block at right, frame the piece without competing with it.
The color logic is Ernst Haas territory: flat, saturated fields doing the work that light usually does, here set against fine, hand-stitched pattern.
Design & Styling
Woven in Color suits libraries and universities, cultural and community centers, restaurants, and eclectic residential interiors that want a figurative piece with real pattern and story. The rifle in the right-hand figure's hands makes it less suited to healthcare or children's spaces.
Curated Pairings
To build a wall around this piece, consider these companion pieces:
For the same pattern and color logic: Pair with Woven Gold, streaks of green, gold, amber, and rust woven into a single field, the same idea of color built from repeated threads, in a very different subject.
For the same theme of woven culture: Pair with Aghaałą́ — Where the Wool Gathers, a landmark whose Navajo name refers to wool, another image where weaving and place are connected.
For the same tenderness: Pair with A Gentle Lesson, a young boy offering an open palm to a black horse, a small figure held in a gesture of care, the same quiet tenderness that sits at the center of this mural, though in a very different setting.
Fine Art Presentation
Available as an open edition print, unsigned and unnumbered, in ChromaLuxe® Metal (gloss, semi-gloss, or matte), Glossy Anti-Glare Acrylic (TruLife), canvas, wood, and archival paper (framed or unframed). ChromaLuxe® Metal (matte) is the recommended presentation: the matte finish keeps the rainbow bands from reflecting the room while the flat saturated fields stay crisp. Archival paper is the alternative for a hand-painted, more textural read.
Note: This is an open edition print, unsigned and unnumbered, available in the sizes and materials listed above.
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