Joshua Yurcheshen

Joshua Yurcheshen

josh.maru.textiles@gmail.com

Website: https://oboe-point-fte9.squarespace.com

 (210) 381-2834

   7423 Horse Tail Drive, San Antonio, TX, 78240

I have bounced around so many mediums on my path to fibers, I can't even list them all.

Immediately prior to weaving making an appearance in my life, I was an aspiring printmaker; an etcher.  The issue I found with my work is that, being raised by clinical psychologists and being in psychotherapy myself, all my work was figurative, narrative, and autobiographical.

After nakedly displaying my various mental states for five years, it became apparent that subjecting my personal stories to the critique of others was doing more harm to my psyche than good.  The energy I was putting into printmaking was energy lost; there was not much return on my investment and it didn’t feed my soul.

Luckily, I had already begun to journey into fibers.  Knitting and crocheting were among the skills that I had long ago acquired, but they hurt my hands and I had had to give them up.  A beginning handweaving class opened up a form of yarncraft that allowed me to create items without causing pain in the process.  It was like bumping into an old friend.

I had no idea at the time that ten years and hundreds of scarves and shawls later, I would begin using an abstract medium to explore the very same intensely personal themes to which printmaking had given an outlet.  The crucial difference being, the formal and mechanical constraints of weaving do as much to obscure the themes I talk about as illuminate them.

I have found a home that offers safety, and the freedom to fully express myself.

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