Projects > Water Everywhere and Nowhere

Jacquard woven Antarctic glacier manipulated to look like it is dissolving
Jacquard woven fabric, mercerized cotton and bamboo
27" x 40"
2024
$1890
jacquard woven fabric of plastic floating near trash island in the pacific
Jacquard woven fabric, mercerized cotton, jacobs wool and plastic yarns
28" x 27"
2024
$1323
jacquard woven fabric of plastic floating near trash island in the pacific
Jacquard woven fabric, mercerized cotton and plastic yarns
27.5" x 21.5"
2024
$1034
jacquard woven fabric of plastic floating near trash island in the pacific
Jacquard woven fabric, mercerized cotton and plastic yarns
27.5" x 24.5"
2024
$1179
jacquard woven fabric of plastic floating near trash island in the pacific
Jacquard woven fabric, mercerized cotton and plastic yarns
27.5" x 25"
2024
$1203
Weaving of water in indigo blue with the sun's rays glittering on the surface of the water
Weaving with indigo dyed cotton, found cotton, and onion skin dyed wool yarns, metaillic threads
29" x 30"
2023
$870
Weaving with overshot depicting colorful wetlands from above
Weaving with indigo and turmeric dyed cotton, wool
29" x 35"
2024
$1015
jacquard woven fabric depicting a washed out sandy beach with water left behind
Jacquard woven fabric, mercerized cotton and plastic yarns
26.75" x 28"
2024
$1123
Weaving of water with traces of receding tide, indigo blue
Weaving with indigo dyed cotton, wool, bamboo yarns
28.5" x 34"
2023
$1211
Weaving of water with traces of receding tide, indigo blue
Weaving with indigo dyed cotton and wool yarns, metallic yarns
29" x 33"
2023
$1196
Weaving of water with center column giving the feeling of sinkng
Weaving with indigo dyed cotton and wool yarns, metallic yarns
29" x 32"
2023
$1160
weaving of tides receding in purple and blue
Weaving with indigo and cochineal dyed cotton, wool, bamboo yarns
29" x 36"
2023
$1044
Weaving of the ocean floor in blue and purple textures
Weaving with indigo and cochineal dyed cotton, bamboo, wool and alpaca yarns, metallic threads
29” x 34”
2023
$986
Weaving of water with center reflection seam, indigo blue
Weaving with indigo dyed cotton, wool, bamboo yarns
19" x 19"
2022
$361
Weaving of water with meeting of the water and sky, indigo blue
Weaving with naturally dyed cotton, wool and bamboo yarns-- indigo, marigold, chil'qua, quolle
19" x 19"
2022
$361
Weaving of water with reflection of the moon, indigo blue
Weaving with cotton, indigo-dyed wool and alpaca yarns
19" x 19"
2022
$361
Weaving with naturally dyed wool and alpaca yarns-- indigo, marigold, chil'qua
Weaving with naturally dyed wool and alpaca yarns-- indigo, marigold, chil'qua
19" x 19"
2022
$361

This body of work utilizes pattern-based tapestry as a drawing medium to map the connection between Indigo (a living color) and water as a living entity. The woven wave-forms and seascapes are both real and imagined—the beating of the loom akin to the ebb/flow of the tides. In drafting weaving patterns, Vota creates her own waves and ripples, and this deep focus on pattern is akin to larger observations of the sun sparking off the water, or the moon reflecting its face. She juxtaposes the beautiful idealization of these images with the living reality of our polluted water systems.