Weaving

Every textile carries a kind of coded relationship between time and space, represented by warp and weft.  It’s a language of tactile memory connected by hidden structure, and deeply embedded in human experience.  My work encompasses a desire to represent cloth as a way of seeing, and as a parallel text that explores visual storytelling.

My tapestries and multi-harness constructions often concern issues of perception and mimesis, and the liminal sense of indecipherable alphabets reverting to image.  This lacunae series was inspired by ancient texts that have decomposed beyond legibility yet retain a mute beauty. Shapes resulting from damage add new patterns to the composition, paradoxically giving and subtracting meaning.