S tephen embraces inspiration from all media and he communes with AI, but those building blocks, those old materials, silk, for example resonates with me. When we first started talking about how to interpret the show I went back to my own training. I was in grad school. I was a teaching assistant. I taught textile science, and I looked at a lot of fibers through a magnifying glass. And I knew that silk was this super fiber. And I thought, Why are you using this as a canvas? As we started talking about silk, I mentioned some silk books that I had read, and you know, he’s very interested, and correct me if I’m wrong, Stephen, I think you downloaded or bought one or two books, and I think you read them in a day. And we got back and started talking about it, and you were just so excited, and his love of learning, and his openness to integrating new ideas, you know, that’s the heart of an artist.
Silk: A World History by Aarathi Prasad
Then, a few months later, we were talking, and we found out that we both had studied paper making in Ja - pan. What are the odds of that? And so both of these, the origins of silk go back to 4,000 BC, an old mate - rial, life-changing, civilization chang - ing, as was paper and you know we were talking more about that con - nection with silk and his work and again, correct me if I’m wrong, those talks about silk, and the further in - vestigation, inspired you to make the silk moth scarf which I am wearing, and it is 100 percent silk.
Goliathus CPU, 48” x 48” 18 mm stretched silk twill , Shoosty, 2023
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