…Similar kinds of gestures emerge in Marti’s woven works as well, although by slightly different means. Despite their titles, these quasi-painterly quasi-sculptural bindings are not representations of people; they are instead markers of process ruptured briefly by gestures in their making. These are Marti’s own gestures of frustration and passion as he tightens the weave and rips the cord into place, a response both to his memory of the subjects as he binds his materials together and the painstaking process of binding itself. Weaves buckle and cords fray partially in their rubbing, slightly stripping the sheathed surface of the ropes to reveal a glint of something underneath. Many of these ropes have already been distressed before their tethering, dragged behind a car across the ground, over concrete, grazing dirt, so as to soil the ropes’ appearances, to test their limits and impart small incisions through their façades…. Extract Exhibition Catalogue by Anthony Gardner
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