Gallery Art.Motif presents, The Chiaki Maki – The Art of the Weaver by artist Chiaki Maki. She set up the Maki Textile Studio in Tokyo, Japan, in 1990, and started visiting India for her weaving.
She started the Maapai Project in 1997 along with Ishigaki Akiko and Masago Michoyi – a project to create contemporary clothing based on the Eastern Asian traditional materials and styles, with a Maapai show held in New York in 1998.
“My textile making is not only for expression, but it’s made by living products and playing in my favourite way. My dream was to plow the land and cultivate plants for the fibres and the colours and the food… and now I’ve been doing it for about 10 years.
Sometimes just receiving from wild nature also.
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