Kaleidoscope
Margo thinks a lot about optical effect and plays with off-kilter symmetry, pull-focus and forced perspectives. A Kaleidoscope is a playful 19th century device to delight the eye with colour and pattern seen through an ocular tube – Margo adopts it here to describe the act of focussed vision and the sensations of colour. The panels of Kaleidoscope have thousands of individual strands of yarn – each one of those hand-threaded, counted and re-counted.
Margo Selby
Whitstable, England
Margo Selby Kaleidoscope panels I, II and III, 2022. Handwoven stretched lampas panels, in tencel and silk; stretched and framed in wood. Each panel: 1795mm (h) x 920mm (w).