Audrey Ducas

"I'm a textile artist based in the south of France. Originally from Provence, I received my bachelor's degree in textile design in Aubusson, France, the world capital of tapestry, and my masters from Paris' esteemed Ensci Design Institute. I then relocated to New York City and spent 10 years working in high-end textile design and traveling the globe collaborating with the hidden artisans behind our planet's most striking textiles. I have been weaving for over 30 years as a contemplation practice."

"I keep studying and honoring the lineage of weavers I evolved from while also taking risks and consciously breaking the rules of my classical training. Weaving has taught me how parameters and strict boundaries (the loom and the warp) allow creativity and exploration to blossom. My willingness to allow for un-woven spaces, to weave outside of the warp, and to take detours and get intimate with abstract details reflects my drive to explore deeply one's inner landscape, its duality and the possibilities to bring it all together without any expectations but to let it all be. I see weaving as a conversation between the permanent and the impermanent, the organized and the chaotic, stillness and playfulness, and the unshakable verticality of the earth-divine plane (steady warp) against the horizontality of the human plane (dynamic weft). The pieces become stories of an instinctual nature where the occasional twist and turns of the weft bring emotions, questions and perhaps understanding to the surface."