Artist Elisa Strozyk plays with our familiarity with materials in these extraordinary works called “Wooden Textiles.”
Although, when you consider that Tencel yarn is made from wood pulp, maybe she is also highlighting a familiarity that we didn’t even know we had?
The wooden textile intends to look at the new ways wood can be manipulated from its hard physical property to a fluid form when combined with fabric. Providing flexibility to wood allows us to connect with it in new ways. Utilizing wood veneers once considered waste and re-purposing them through hand and laser cut isosceles, she is able to leverage the hard properties of wood and give them a fluid framework to create an innovative textile. Her process gives the textile strength and flexibility.