Libro, Tejiendo Palabras-Weaving Words by Marina Soria

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 *BEST OF SHOW AWARD! Uncommon Threads Exhibition 2011

This little book was part of a bigger artwork which was selected for the National Argentinean Textile Art Show in 2011 in Buenos Aires. It shows my process from a formal calligraphy into a more personal writing and my process in the study of shape and counter/shape.

A story is unfold, and from it thousands of pieces flourish Some of them are truly works of art, but by themselves they lose their meaning Save them! Preserve them with love because with love they were woven In the future they will become part of some other fabric Keep on weaving and do not ask about them it’s no time to reason there will come a time to unfold them Just for today, do not think, weave, weave, weave! Weave like crazy, weave with tears, Weave with anger, weave while screaming, weave with euphoria Weave words and weave good dreams Do not get discouraged… keep on weaving there are many lives and many knittings Somewhere you will find the pattern.

Artist Bio

Born in Argentina in 1961, married and mother of three daughters. She has a BA in Fine Arts (five years study), and a degree on Graphic Design & Advertising (three years study). She taught Graphic Design and Editorial Design in the School of Architecture, Design & Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires, and she became an Associate Professor in Typography for the same University in 1998. She attended five International Calligraphy Conferences in USA and three in Europe taking courses with well known calligraphers such as Thomas Ingmire, Brody Neuenschwander, Ewan Clayton, Monica Dengo amongst others. In 2003 she was awarded with the ACA's Scholarship. She has won national & international awards and exhibited her pictorial and calligraphic works in art galleries and museums in Argentina, Uruguay, USA, Spain, Japan, Germany & Russia. Her works are part of the The Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy in Russia and the Hans-Joachim Burgert ´s collection of calligraphy instituted at the Akademie der Künst in Berlin, as well as the Arezzo Public Library in Italy. She has published articles in specialized magazines and her work may be seen in Letter Arts Review Annuals, Bound & Lettered and in the ACA's Newsletters from USA, Novum magazine from Germany, Typo magazine from Mexico, Pulso Diseño from Uruguay as well as magazines in Argentina. She is encharge of the calligraphy section in http://www.artesdellibro.com At present she works as an experimental calligrapher and graphic artist as well as teaching in her own studio. She was a founder member of "Calígrafos de la Cruz del Sur" the first calligraphic guild in South America.