The Logic of The Break — Rebecca Diele

REBECCA DIELE

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The Logic of The Break

During the residency at the Australian Tapestry Workshop, the focus turned toward the traditions of tapestry and the intricate systems that underpin woven structures. Time spent alongside the weavers and within the community of the ATW opened a space for deeper engagement with process and technique. Like tapestry, these works are built through repetition and order, yet within this framework, moments of disruption emerge — small breaks that unsettle the weave in subtle but persistent ways. The work becomes an inquiry into how interruption might generate new possibilities, how a shift, a pause, or a deviation can open space for transformation.

The study of bell ringing revealed a parallel logic: a communal sequence shaped by both intention and unpredictability, continually undone by slight variations and remade through deliberate method, always poised on the edge of change. This dynamic extends to the materials themselves. Slits, stretched threads, and warped surfaces register moments of interruption and response. They invite the viewer to slow down and linger within these thresholds, where tension holds, resolution is deferred, and instability gives rise to new potential. The works resist stillness. They unfold over time through proximity, light, and movement, asking the viewer to remain present within a state of flux and to consider change not as an endpoint but as something continually in motion.

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