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."