Tammy Kanat, Solo Exhibition: Blue on Blue

Blue on Blue is an immersion into blue as an experience rather than an image. The weavings are formed through repetition and restraint, placing blue against itself so that depth, stillness, and perception can unfold slowly. By removing contrast and overt narrative, blue becomes a field, something to enter, remain within, and return to.

My attraction to blue is deeply connected to history and nature. Lapis lazuli, first mined in Afghanistan as early as the seventh millennium BCE, was once one of the most treasured materials in human culture. Transported across continents and reserved for the sacred, lapis blue carries with it a sense of continuity, devotion, and time. There is comfort in this lineage.

Working with blue connects my practice to a colour that has been sought, protected, and contemplated for thousands of years.

This pull toward blue intensified during my residency in Paris. As I moved through museums, architecture, and the city itself, blue repeatedly drew my attention. Encounters with the work of Yves Klein, Lee Ufan, Mark Rothko, Olga DeAmaral, and Anish Kapoor reinforced this sense of being called inward, toward stillness, depth, and material presence. Blue became less a choice than a quiet insistence, something that continually drew me in.