The article explores Kristie Strasen's innovative weaving project, which serves as a form of cartography depicting the Columbia River and its tributaries. Strasen, an award-winning colorist and textile designer, integrates her artistic vision with the geography of her surroundings since moving to the Columbia Gorge. The exhibition, showcasing her intricate weavings, blends scientific inquiry with aesthetic appeal, transforming maps into abstract artworks. The project reflects her meticulous approach to capturing natural landscapes and their essence while pioneering the intersection of art and geography.
"Her current endeavor can be described as a work of cartography, in the widest sense. The weavings model reality in the most abstract ways, combining scientific inquiry, aesthetics and technique, as all map-making does that tries to capture reality in spatial form."
"Kristie Strasen is a renowned colorist and textile designer, with numerous awards under her belt, and, more importantly, decades of experience in creating pattern and color schemes for high-end textiles where execution matches her original visualization."
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