My work explores the interconnected relationship of the body and land through textiles and natural dyeing. In a collaboration with plants, I embrace the alchemy of natural dyes as both a precise science and an imperfect act of trust. By collecting locally grown flora and simmering them with thread or fabric, I transform a material and permanently link it to a specific place, capturing memory held in the land. Using plants I grew as a dye material, is a way to link myself to the fabric and the fabric to a place, forming a bond between human and earth.
Within each handwoven piece of cloth, I lay rows of captured time, often borrowing from early American patterns, in a dream-like adaptation. Weaving is a method of making that has been practiced in repetition for thousands of years, by thousands of hands. I find a great comfort in being a thread within that story. My interest in fibers is rooted in the practical sensibility of makers before me, that I hope to honor in my own work. I wish to evoke the memory of a familiar place in my weavings, through forms found in the natural world- wind marks in the dunes, ancient tree bark and mycelium networks.
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