Doerte Weber is one of the artists whose work is featured in the Kerr Arts and Cultural Center Fiber Arts exhibit. Here is her statement about the work that will be included:
Every morning I get my local newspaper delivered in a thin plastic wrapper. These plastic wrappers have almost no color, only logo and address of the paper printed in small black letters. But when I started weaving with them, colors became visible and it was like I was weaving a story of my diverse community.
This is the concept I am expanding on: to take something which most people throw away or recycle and reuse it in art, either by itself but mostly with various yarns to accentuate texture.
In weaving with plastic wrappers, I use mostly traditional weaving patterns. They give an assurance of familiarity, balancing the texture and sometimes distorted structure created through the medium of the plastic wrappers.