Sonorous Portrait by Tomas Arreigota

I met Tomas Arreigota when he visited my Hotwalls studio, having seen my loom through the window. Tomas was studying film at Portsmouth University and he proposed a collaboration. Using sound and image, Tomas developed a Sonorous Portrait over a period of six months, to capture the process of weaving on my George Wood loom. The sound and movement shown in the film builds a narrative of the relationship between body and loom.

The piece is called Woven Drawings, and captures the process of weaving and finally taking the cloth off the loom by cutting, unrolling and untying. With intersecting clips of the different components of the loom in use, the film focuses on details such as the movement of my hands and feet working the loom. 

Accompanying his sonorous portrait, Tomas created a documental record of thoughts and reflections on our collaboration and the conversations we had.

To watch and read the Sonorous Portrait and documental record please visit Tomas’s website below:

Photographs by Karl Bailey

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