Arturo Alonzo Sandoval
Region: South
As an artist, I experience the world around me with a keen
observational eye. What has distinguished me for over fortyfive
years from other artists in fiber is my choice to repurpose
twentieth-century industrial materials such as tapes or films. I
find order in this fodder and create beauty from the residue of
our culture by transforming the materials into woven, stitched, or
interlaced webs. From my studio practice, a new form of textile art
has emerged. My sources include textiles structures, abstraction,
and computer elements. In addition, politics, the military, social
change, the biblical Book of Revelations, the Urantia Book,
Nostradamus, and astronomy have influenced my ideas. My art is
my identity and communicates my place in the total world order.