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In the series Woven, Marcuse imagines herself introducing time into the lush flora and fauna which make up the millefleurs backgrounds of medieval tapestries. The 5 x 10 foot photographs sometimes take weeks to compose, and during this process of composition, of collecting, arranging, burning, painting, and transplanting, there is change. Flowers wither, spiders build webs, new shoots emerge, and corpses decay. Influenced both by the Dutch vanitas tradition and the allover compositions of Jackson Pollock, she hopes the photographs can be experienced as detailed still lives when viewed from up close, but hold together as immersive, more abstract compositions from further away. Common to all the pieces is a sense of plenty which verges on plunder.

Tanya studied Art History and Studio Art at Oberlin and earned her MFA from Yale. In between, on a year-long Thomas J. Watson Fellowship she lived in the Venezuelan rainforest with a small group of Bari people, photographing and writing. Her photographs are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the George Eastman Museum, among others. In 2005, she embarked on Fruitless | Fallen | Woven. Tanya is a student of martial arts and boxing as a method of cultivating mental and physical concentration and discipline. Tanya’s latest book, based on a three-part, fourteen-year project is Fruitless | Fallen | Woven (Radius Press, 2019).