Anna Guyton - Weavings

My weaving technique is a process primarily concerned with materiality, negotiating how space is distributed and policed. By weaving two prints together, I am imitating the physical discomfort of forcing a fat queer body into a space designed without us in mind (i.e. school desks, plane seats, church pews). These spaces both highlight and erase bodies that do not conform; similarly the woven images obscure one another's legibility while simultaneously creating new meanings. The process of weaving gives a literal weight to the print, its physical presence heightened as it becomes heavier. The depth created through this technique resists the presumption of an image as something flat or static, which is reflective of fat queer bodies transcending an idealized flat or fixed physique.