Title: Silvia Heyden; recent tapestries. [Exhibition] 11 March-23 April, 1972, Duke University Museum of Art.
Authors: Heyden, Silvia, 1927-; Duke University.
Year: 1972
Subjects: Heyden, Silvia,
Abstract: Silvia Heyden’s Artist Statement: As I look back over my eighty years of sketching, seventy-five years of playing the violin and sixty years of weaving tapestries, I clearly see the confluence of strings in my work that has made musical themes of rhythm, motifs, movement, repetition and variation the key to my compositions. When I play my violin, I see the visual interpretation on the loom of musical pieces; when I am weaving, I listen to the inner rhythm of the forms and colors as my tapestry evolves. In my decades at the loom, I have never copied images, but rather have sought to let the patterns emerge organically as dictated by the process of weaving. Instead of superimposing a form to be woven on the weft, I have always looked with my ‘loomish’ eyes to see what the weft and warp would allow me to execute.^