Pigment Reclamation Cloth
Noelle Guetti
The pigment-reclamation cloth woven by textile artist Noelle Guetti is comprised of six pieces stitched together to form a single canvas that must be cut each time a painting in the Records of Being Held series is rented. The cloths reflect patterns used by early weavers of sail and artist’s canvas, and are designed to show places where the pattern is dissolving or being worn away. Canvas, integral to the infrastructure of the colonization of the so-called “New World” and the subsequent visual records of “exotic” landscapes, is, through this process, inverted from a surface which holds the landscape captive to a vehicle of return which carries the pigment back to its land of origin. The cutting of the canvas/sail represents a ritual dismantling of colonizing structures.
