MIRIAM OMURA
Miriam Norris Omura is a textile artist predominantly working in the medium of weaving. She looks at ideas of memory though the exploration of layered portraits and often pulls imagery from both found and family photographs. Her weaving process that created blurred images references process our brains retrieve and layer memories together. When memories are retrieved, they fuse with other memories to produce an unclear view that sits between truth and fiction. As a memory is recalled, it becomes layered and reshaped by the chemical process of retrieval in the brain. Omura hopes to visually capture these ideas within her work, showing the intangible aspects of memory.
Omura received her BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art and an MA in History from Cleveland State University, she has also studied weaving in Kyoto, Japan. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, she works with the non-profit Bib & Tucker Sew-Op and is a member of the Ground Floor Contemporary artist cooperative.
