Custom Weavings and Assemblages

Assemblage artwork combining weaving with repurposed materials.

Currently accepting commissions.

From commercial works created from materials and tools associated with your institution to individual works created from personal collections, I'd love to discuss possibilities and design something unique for you.
E-mail Jo for a quote at: westfallrefinery@gmail.com

Consider collections you may have in a box that could be displayed on the wall: Grandpa's yardsticks, belts, and canes; your band's worn out instrument cables and guitar strings; Cousin Pat's whips and costume jewelry; your company's old safety straps, metal remnants, and empty pens; Mom's scarves and wooden spoons; etc...

*Gift deliveries are also possible.
Begin your custom order by e-mailing: westfallrefinery@gmail.com

"Copper Prosody"
19" x 27" x 6"
Repurposed machinery wheel, guitar strings, copper wire, drum snare, hand-forged metal hook, reclaimed pulley

"Underwriters' Spectrum"
6 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 3 1/2
Recycled rainbow of assorted wires, radio knobs, and repurposed electrical casing

Welders' Call and Response, 2022
48" x 48" x 5"
Rusted welding spools and piano wire

Running Sound, 2022
About 4' x 4'
Various musical elements including: Speaker cable, instrument cable, microphone cable, guitar and piano strings, drumsticks, drum tuners, piano wood, guitar pedals, and recycled coated wiring

Wrought Atlas Rendered (shown lit and unlit), 2021
About 3' x 5'. Welding spools, coated wire, phone plugs, fabric, piano wire, bells

The Queen's Astronomer, 2022
44 x 45 x 4
Repurposed fabrics and yarns, computer keyboard cables, drum tuners, piano parts, chair springs, zip ties, and phone cable.

City Market, 2022
44 x 29 x 5
Rusted welders' spools that were left in the rain, chair springs, discarded copper and coated wire, plastic rope found on a roadside, and reclaimed fabrics.

Blow In It, 2022
36 x 33 x 5.5
Pneumatic hose, game controllers, phone cable, piano parts, coated wire clothes hangers, and AV cables

Adapt, 2020
Adapters, display racks, assorted coated wires, hanging file hardware

Jennifer and John - Two Lives Interwoven. 2020
A collection of mementos from a story of two people.

Jennifer and John -
Scarves and Ties, Knitting and Cycling. 2020

Breathing Glass - glass bulbs, breathing tubes, coated and non-coated wiring, silk, painted stick. 2020

Foltz Machine, 2019
Elements from the processes of a machine shop in Ohio.
27" x 34"

Rising From Rust - 2019
Manhole ring, metal banding, piano wire, copper wire, canning lids, washers, and trampoline springs - all sourced from Mansfield, Ohio area.