{"id":803131,"date":"2020-01-16T10:14:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T17:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=377435"},"modified":"2020-01-16T10:14:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T17:14:15","slug":"an-interwoven-community-craig-walsh-and-hiromi-tangos-woven-spaces-creates-a-healing-hub-in-breckenridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/an-interwoven-community-craig-walsh-and-hiromi-tangos-woven-spaces-creates-a-healing-hub-in-breckenridge\/","title":{"rendered":"An interwoven community: Craig Walsh and Hiromi Tango\u2019s \u2018Woven Spaces\u2019 creates a healing hub in Breckenridge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Artist Hiromi Tango demonstrates how to make a paper flower while installing \u201cWoven Spaces\u201d on Wednesday, Jan. 15, at Breck Create\u2019s Old Masonic Hall in Breckenridge.<\/strong>
Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 Art and science are often seen as polar opposites. But Australia-based artists Craig Walsh and Hiromi Tango hope their latest work can bridge the perceived gap \u2014 especially on a local scale. Partners in both life and art, the two have brought \u201cWoven Spaces,\u201d a collection of four interconnected works, to Breckenridge. Tango is passionate about neuroscience and incorporates much of what she reads in scientific journals in her textile artworks.<\/p>\n

She met Walsh in Tokyo while coordinating the Australia artist residency program at her university. She was moved by his work with projections, proposed to him and relocated to Australia when she was 22. They collaborate often but limit themselves to two major projects a year, including \u201cWoven Spaces,\u201d which touches on mental health in today\u2019s society.<\/p>\n

This exhibit was designed in partnership with local mental health organizations like Building Hope, Summit Community Care Clinic and Mind Springs Health, and it features various workshops like yoga and a chance to contribute to Walsh and Tango\u2019s works. Tango knows she isn\u2019t a health care professional. Yet that isn\u2019t stopping her from trying to do good in the world and heal people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a difference between \u2018cure\u2019 and \u2018heal,\u2019\u201d Tango said. \u201c\u2019Cure\u2019 is to recover, but \u2018heal\u2019 is not necessarily to recover. We may not cure whatever physical illness or mental illness, but collectively, if we aim for a healing journey, it is definitely transformative.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Brain Flowers\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Come next week, likely the first portion of the installation seen by the public will be a series of sprawling cables outside of the Old Masonic Hall. Called \u201cBrain Flowers,\u201d the work is a commentary on culture\u2019s connection in the digital world with an animation of a human brain overlaid on obsolete cellphone and laptop chargers and other wires. <\/p>\n

Tango and Walsh recognize that technology is vital, but they ask attendees to examine the dependency and how it might sacrifice more fulfilling moments.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very strange time that we\u2019re in, don\u2019t you think?\u201d Tango said. \u201cThe speed of life is getting faster with more efficient communication, but we don\u2019t feel fully loving without the human energy, the electricity we have. When we touch each other, it warms the temperature of the body.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Healing Garden\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

To bolster that intimate connection, inside the gallery is a calming space known as the \u201cHealing Garden.\u201d There people can see natural elements such as flowers native to Colorado made out of strips of old, washed clothing donated by the Family & Intercultural Resource Center along with individual residents. The columbines, Indian paintbrush, daisies and lupine have restorative properties, Tango said, and are purposefully matched with pastels like green, pink and yellow that are known to have a healthy psychological effect.<\/p>\n

\u201cColor coordination is really good for wellness,\u201d said Tango, who calls herself a Chinese herbalist or acupuncturist using color to relieve pressure. \u201cIt really helps to cleanse the mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tango isn\u2019t looking for any particular type of textile for the garden, but she wishes people to donate personal items. That way their own memories and emotions become tied to \u201cWoven Spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Artist Hiromi Tango shows Elizabeth Drummond how to make a paper flower Wednesday, Jan. 15, at the \u201cWoven Spaces\u201d installation at Breck Create\u2019s Old Masonic Hall in Breckenridge.<\/strong>
Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cWe like to give the projects to locals for the purposing of community building,\u201d Tango said. \u201cThe outcome has yet to be discovered. No one really knows what it is going to be, and that is our aim. \u2026 The less we say or direct, it becomes the local\u2019s projects and less ours.\u201d<\/p>\n

A subset of the garden is \u201cHealing Circles,\u201d a participatory piece that has guests drawing circles within circles to be placed on windows throughout the gallery. Tango said circles are a recurring theme in healing across cultures. It is an extension of her repetitious wrapping of textiles around objects that she hopes has a soothing effect on the brain.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat compulsion calms us down and has a similar effect to yoga or meditations,\u201d Tango said. \u201cI wondered how I could translate this repetitious movement into a two-dimensional drawing. \u2026 It\u2019s the matter of filling the circles with very small circles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Average residents and visitors will make a large portion of \u201cHealing Garden\u201d and \u201cHealing Circles,\u201d so Tango sees herself as a supportive gardener planting a seed to grow into something more beautiful than its humble beginnings. If Tango was new to these projects or to Breckenridge, she might have some hesitations about leaving the work in the care of strangers, but she doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy should I worry?\u201d Tango said. \u201cI\u2019m a middle-aged mom of two young children. I might worry about teenagers because adolescence is a challenging time. If I treat my job as putting a seed and leave the community and each season the seed is not taken care of, I would worry. But in this specific community, trust is already built and great care has been demonstrated. \u2026 I feel a healthy, hopeful future in this community.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hiromi Tango and Craig Walsh\u2019s 10-year-old daughter, Kimiyo, helps Wednesday, Jan. 15, with the \u201cWoven Spaces\u201d art installation at Breck Create\u2019s Old Masonic Hall in Breckenridge.<\/strong>
Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018Home\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Walsh\u2019s main piece in \u201cWoven Spaces\u201d is an hourlong video that combines clips of about 80 people discussing what the idea of home means to them. Most of Walsh\u2019s interviewees are from Australia, but people from Korea and about 25 from Summit County also will appear. \u201cHome\u201d therefore has a universal and local feel by using subjects from different backgrounds and countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe find when individuals candidly express their ideas and emotions of home, it instills that question within the community itself, the viewer,\u201d Walsh said. \u201cIt extends the conversation into the broader community and discussion around home, sense of place, connection.<\/p>\n

The video can be seen both inside the gallery on a collaged screen of fabric and projected on the exterior of the Fuqua Livery Stable. The nonnarrative loop will be offset so that one can see a portion inside and likely see a different segment once they exit, creating an illusion of a continuous conversation.<\/p>\n

While \u201cHome\u201d has been seen at other exhibitions elsewhere in the world, this will be site-specific not only because of locals\u2019 contributions but also because the wood of the stable will add to the piece.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the great thing about projection: It automatically includes the environment it exists in as part of the dialogue,\u201d Walsh said.<\/p>\n

Though outdoor projection is planned to end when the pair leave at the end of the month, it still will be viewable upstairs in the gallery until the exhibit closes in May. Along with the works transforming via participation, they want \u201cWoven Spaces\u201d to become a hub that carries on the message of using art for wellness.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome community members may not realize how important arts are for us,\u201d Tango said. \u201cLots of people might enjoy skiing but not necessarily art. I really personally believe that if you become friends with the arts, creative writing or music or whatever, you are fine. <\/p>\n

\u201cI would just like each person to develop a trusting relationship with arts engagement. I want everyone to have a close relationship with art. It can be ceramic, it can be drawing \u2014 we don\u2019t know \u2014 but something will talk to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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