Thoughts

Happy Earth Day from Tick Studio! 🌎🌍🌏 We were fortunate to spend Earth Day with fellow weavers and getting in touch with nature at @longhousereserve. Assembling and preparing new works of art using 100% recycled and discarded materials. Thank you to all who participated!

In honor of Women’s History Month this March, Business of Furniture reached out to female leaders in the design and manufacturing industries to weigh in on the challenges women face and the inspiration they find to bridge the gap of gender disparity. More than 60% of designers are women. Yet only around 10% of designers are women in leadership positions. Suzanne Tick weighed in. Get the full story at bellow.press and Suzanne’s thoughts below:

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The world is shaped by the way we move. Earthly Artifacts is a collection by Suzanne Tick that features four textiles inspired by the physical impressions left by humans on the earth—and the patterns created in the process.

Drawing from shared elements across art, anthropology and geology, Earthly Artifacts examines the impact and expression of nature’s organizing principles: discernable up close and undeniable at scale. Made with a variety of high-performance, recycled materials selected for multi-purpose and indoor/outdoor use—such as high-UV polyester, high-UV polypropylene, and 100% recycled polyester—Geoglyph, Pebble Melange, Particulate and Megacheck reflect our continuous desire to immerse ourselves in nature. These textiles feature layered fields of multi-color materials that create complex earthen shades, reminiscent of contemporary art and archaeological remnants.

Both abstract and representational, the Earthly Artifacts collection tells the story of topography through the lens of human intervention and the collective form of many individual paths—weaving new meaning into our relationship with the earth.

For more information, visit luumtextiles.com.