- Hi, my name's Amy Harms and welcome to my art studio.

It looks like an explosion of paper in here which is kind of my thing.

This is called my Paper Weaving art series and I'm inspired by music.

My background's in music and everything has a hidden musical element whether it starts from when I'm painting and then when I'm cutting the pieces and weaving.

I like to take different individual pieces of my art and break it down into individual moments and then when I'm weaving it together, to me it's a musical process, and a lot of times I'm also weaving in album covers within my work that are the original inspiration to the artwork.

The process starts with my paintings on art paper.

I make multiple paintings.

As I'm painting, there's an inspiration, whether it's a musical artist or an album, and that's sort of in the back of my head as I'm painting and I'm, you know, jamming to these artists.

But the vinyl album covers come into play and the final weave, I might cut bits of them up and then hide them within the weave.

Sort of a hidden message within the art.

This whole paper weaving process actually started when a music collector had hundreds of vinyl records that were damaged and he just donated them in the name of art.

And then I also got about a thousand CDs donated to me.

I started playing with the actual album covers.

I started shredding, the CD covers, and you know, what can I do with this?

I had little strips of everything and I started weaving everything together.

Even when I'm cutting my pieces, you know, I see a staff, I see the movement.

When I'm painting, I'm trying to, you know, mimic, you know whether it's sound waves or music.

I love being absorbed in this community and music city.

It just feeds my soul, and I feel like everyone's really had a really great reaction.

I'm humbled by that.

- [Announcer] This NPT Arts Break is made possible by the generous support of the Martha Rivers Ingram Advised Fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee and a grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission.