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[all the arts of civilization."
No place would be alien to Sheila Hicks. Her particular sensitivity absorbs and selects, from each voyage of discovery, experiences, and visions [[strikethough]] which [[/strikethrough]] that she stores in her mind's eye for some future use.
[¶ The flow of [[strikethrough]]Sheila's[[/strikethrough]] Hicks' work is intermingled with the fullness of her experience of working in many places in the world. In each of the places in which she has worked she has absorbed the tone, respected its tradition, and responded to its potentials. The canvas of the tent, the canopies of mats and vines, the structures of screens, the harmonies of the sinuous movements of dance are the inspirational seed for her images. There are no contradictions in her mind, whether [[strikethough]] it [[/strikethrough]] she is concerned with Greek coiffeurs, French passementerie, or the manufacture of nylon stockings.
[¶ In inspiration as in execution, Sheila Hicks works collectively as well a individually. With her deep respect for traditional handcraft and with the modern perspectives which guide her, she accepted an invitation in 1966 to go to Calicut, Kerala, in the south of India, where she worked with a hand-loom factory designing for commercial textiles. She worked loosely with the Malabar craftsmen selecting silks, flax, and jute but mostly commercial counts of fine cotton. She designed directly on existing warps with inventoried materials and plain weave employing a technique so simple that it could be carried on by the artisans (see Badagar, p. ). She has been back to Calicut [[strikethrough]] many [[/strikethrough]] several times and continues her work there.
Back in Paris, she established her studio, the Atelier des Grand Augustins. Her long association with Warren Platner began with a commission to design, and to produce two major walls for the Ford Foundation Building in New York (p. ). Later, using the same theme as hear earlier White Letter and