Billie
Ruth Sudduth spent almost twenty years as a school
psychologist in her “first career”
(dealing with testing, measurement, statistics,
and math). She has made a natural progression
to making baskets that are mathematically-based.
Most of her work utilizes Fibonacci’s Nature
Sequence, the Golden Mean, fractals, and chaos
theory. When responding to her work, you are responding
to the same proportions that occur throughout
nature. Sudduth’s weaving uses a mathematical
structure of spiral growth found in nature to
create baskets with a rhythmic, naturally flowing
design. She does not separate herself from nature
but through her basketry affirms being a part
of it.
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