Kathy Weaver:
The subject matter for my artwork is the interrelationship of art and science and, specifically, of robots and humans. Using low-tech materials of needle and thread and airbrush, I delve into questions of technological progress and militarism. Though the robot is perceived as dehumanized, my revised version of this 21st century sentient being symbolizes a more enlightened civilization.

My embroideries evoke an alternative world where mechanistic imagery and plant life intersect. These painted and stitched forms are reminders of the primordial soup from which we evolved and are derived from my readings in the field of artificial life. The embroideries show a duality between the softness and familiarity of satins and threads and the complexity of forms from organic chemistry, cellular biology and engineered robots.

The Dolch List Robots are a humorous series of intimate scaled embroideries depicting a selection of the 100 most used words in the English language, the Dolch List. These are sight words, often memorized by form rather than phonetically. Learning these words is crucial to decoding written language.

Kathy Weaver will showing work and giving a lecture at SOFA Chicago.

Good	I
On	Sing
So	You
Growth	Knowledge
The Robot Flies Away	The Robot is Bound
The Robot is Guilty	The Robert Says Nothing