Rain | Spencer Museum of Art

Bhakti Ziek, artist

born 1946

Rain, 2013

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: silk; cotton; rayon; metallic yarn; indigo dye; braided-resist dyed warp; handwoven stain-based weft-backed jacquard weaving

Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund

Accession number: 2019.0058.a,b,c

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The Power of Place: KU Alumni Artists

In Rain, Bhakti Ziek creates an interplay between visual elements and letters, using an indigo palette.
Ziek states: “Rain is part of my Continuum series, in which I have woven sky, water, clouds, and rain in attempts to understand place and where I fit in the world. For Rain, using charts of yearly rain accumulation for Vermont and New Mexico (both places I have called home), I imposed one above the other and plotted mutual points for my woven letters. When finished, information that had meaning became meaningless. I think this is a good metaphor for the current phenomenon where people feel at liberty to bend and twist facts any way that is convenient for their own beliefs.”

The Power of Place: KU Alumni Artists

In Rain, Bhakti Ziek creates an interplay between visual elements and letters, using an indigo palette.
Ziek states:
“Rain is part of my Continuum series, in which I have woven sky, water, clouds, and rain in attempts to understand place and where I fit in the world. For Rain, using charts of yearly rain accumulation for Vermont and New Mexico (both places I have called home), I imposed one above the other and plotted mutual points for my woven letters. When finished, information that had meaning became meaningless. I think this is a good metaphor for the current phenomenon where people feel at liberty to bend and twist facts any way that is convenient for their own beliefs.”