In this latest tapestry, Caron Penney continues the genre of using the power of text to force the viewer to reflect. She often uses direct language in her artworks to force the public to confront societal issues. Caron’s unique text is developed using the woven line and is based upon the grid which underpins all weaving. Submerging light tones with dark she creates a distorted view of the words held within.

The title of the work ‘You see but you do not see’ is drawn from the first line of an extract written by Paul Cézanne which was used in more than two thousand ‘Homage to a Square’ paintings and prints by Josef Albers, in the book ‘Equal & Unequal’ by Nicholas Fox Webber. The piece written by Cézanne refers to the shift between the constant and the fleeting, and the simultaneous presence of what is singular and what is infinite.

‘You see but you do not see
But later that much is the same
As one and the same is many
Far later the wonder that the same is all.’

Caron’s woven pieces use the same materials traditionally used to make handwoven tapestry with the addition of dyed cotton warp which edge the finely woven pieces. She has a deep understanding of hand woven tapestry techniques and her resulting tapestries continue to be embraced by the training she acquired as a professional weaver.