HIGH ABOVE A busy street in downtown Los Angeles, the artist Diedrick Brackens balances over a simple wooden floor loom, a modern-day Briar Rose. His tapes-tries, the first of which he made in 2008, evolved from a sculptural practice that incorporated fiber. Each piece is woven primarily from cotton, a material that carries geographic, cultural, and social weight for the Texas-born artist, tethering him to his ancestors as well as future generations.
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