Ganado Rug
Ganado Rug
Sadie Curtis
20th c.
Bob: Shim谩 looks at this weaving from Ganado and says that the center may be the sun and the entire weaving the Universe. As the triangles radiate out from the center, they become progressively smaller鈥攁 dilation in geometric terms. Shim谩鈥檚 words and the idea of dilation remind me of a mental game I used to play as a boy (and even sometimes still). I would either zoom in or out, starting with, say, my bedroom, my house, my neighborhood, then Albuquerque, New Mexico, the United States, North America, Earth, our solar system, the Milky Way, and the Universe. The skies are so big in the west鈥攖hey invite this kind of 鈥渄ilation thinking鈥 about your place in the universe. Perhaps this weaver, too, was motivated by this kind of thinking as she wove.