| After pursuing dual careers in biochemistry and weaving, I left behind a job as director of biotechnology research lab in 1998 to devote full time to this work. Weaving has been a fervent activity since 1973; initially self-taught with a lap loom and a Sunset Magazine book on hand weaving, but later receiving formal training from a variety of teachers. Formal training in drawing, color and design came from the Alfred Glassel School of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Over the years, activities and responsibilities have included organizing programs for guilds in Houston, TX and California, president of the Houston Handweavers Guild, cofounder of Village Handcrafts fine crafts gallery in Houston and president of Designing Weavers in California. |
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Michael has been weaving fervently since 1973. Initially self-taught, he chooses to work with fiber because of the possible relationships that develop between subliminal texture and the interaction of light and color.
Visions, which are not possible in other media, can be addressed through a woven meduim . Weavings can become an embodiment of the freedom to explore how colors relate to each other and to the surface properties of the fibers used. Pure color and specific color combinations have the power to speak to each of us, often producing differing responses in each person. By limiting the vocabulary to color and weave, the works are better able to stimulate reactions and emotions that these raw color and spatial relationships can have with the viewer
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