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Fiber Artist Windy Chien: Untangling life through knots
7x7 Bay Area: People Will Talk
English - January 08, 2019 17:09 - 48 minutes - 89.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsFood Arts Music travel arts bayarea culture food interviews people Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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A recovering Apple employee and former owner of San Francisco's Aquarius Records, Windy Chien is now fully and unapologetically exploring her creativity as a full-time artist, transforming rope into mesmerizing art installations that both honor and elevate the utility of the material. It all started with a humble personal exercise in 2016: the now-iconic Year of Knots, in which she learned how to make a new knot each day. Many momentous accomplishments have surfaced in its wake: Chien recently exhibited at Art Basel Miami Beach and created a rope installation at National Geographic HQ in Washington, DC. Look for her forthcoming book, from Abrams, later this year.