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Remember That Sunset We Saw from Here One Time?, 1984
Rug weaving, pick on pick technique; wool, linen
79 x 147 cm
Collection of Julia and Yolande Krueger
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Pat Adams
b. 1943, Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada
Pat Adams has described his weaving process as beginning with an image in his mind’s eye.
Every step is planned in advance, from the sequence of shading to dyeing his own yarn. The end product is like a memory, an artifact of the original image in his mind, a reality humorously illustrated in this landscape-within-a-landscape.
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Prairie Sunset, c. 1983
Rug weaving, pick on pick technique; wool, linen
77.5 x 148 cm
MacKenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina Collection, 1983-9
“The prairie shaped my weaving.” This simple statement by Saskatchewan artist and weaver Pat Adams makes clear the motivation behind works such as Prairie Sunset.
Subtle colour gradations, brought to life using multiple shuttles on his large Glimakra loom, define a vibrant, uninterrupted space. Like the Métis sashes he later produced, these landscape weavings speak to an identity closely bound to the land.
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Pat Adams wearing one of his sashes. Source: Sask Valley News, no date.
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Arden Sauer looks on as Pat Adams weaves at the gallery in the Glen Elm branch of the Regina Public Library, 1985. Source: The Leader-Post, September 9, 1985. Photo by Bryan Schlosser.