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Yda
Walt is an artist and designer who interprets the world around her with
her lively and colourful prints. Her images find their way onto
products such as bags and cushions in a playful and spontaneous way.
Everything is done by hand.
Her process involves drawing and producing linocut prints of her work, which is then photographically exposed onto silk screens.
The silkscreen prints are hand stitched onto fabric, a process that
is integral to her work. In this age of digital and computerized
imagery, her work is refreshingly human with no two pieces being
identical.
"I'm pleased that my work is so labour intensive as I live in a
country with chronic unemployment", says Yda. "For the hand stitching,
I generally employ unemployed women to assist me, who are invariably
single mothers, like me. I know how hard it can be, and I feel
gratified that we can help each other, even if it's in a small way.”
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