Emma Welty – HEIRLOOM

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Emma Welty

Emma Welty "Do Not Wring or Twist"

Emma Welty

Emma Welty "Only When Needed"

Gold velvet embossed with the words “put these on a piece of blue or green velvet and it’s art” surrounded by a frame of colorful fruit and blossoms made in Armenian needlelace, including watermelons, plums, lemons, strawberries, apricots, and grapes.

Emma Welty "Inverse Still Life"

Tumble centers on careful stewardship of textiles, both heirloom quality and everyday clothing items. Keeping in mind notions of cultural heritage, matrilineal inheritance, muscle memory, and shared links between language and cloth, the works mine words and phrases from the care tags of bras. The words are isolated from their full context and rendered in colorful weaving and lace to allow them to float between literal handling instructions and small poems about care and intimacy in the time of a pandemic.

Emma Welty "Tumble"

Emma Welty "Made In"

Pile rug handwoven by Emma Welty using various heirloom yarn as a woven interpretation of Arshille Gorky's painting How My Mother’s Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life.

Emma Welty "After Arshille Gorky (How My Mother’s Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life, 1944)"

Emma Welty - “New Mom in Artsakh Gifted A Bouquet of Radishes After Being Discharged From Hospital Amid Shortages of Goods as Azerbaijan’s Blockade Enters day 19,” Zartonk Media, December 30, 2022.

Emma Welty

Emma Welty "You Are Not My Friend"

Emma Welty

Emma Welty "Poison: Honey"

Emma Welty

Emma Welty "Radical Reconfiguration of the Body"

Emma Welty

Emma Welty "Orphan Rug"