textured handspun fiber art
weaving done on my backstrap and rigid heddle looms
Adventures in hand spinning, mostly with spindles.
Backstrap weaving efforts and research through practice, from South America to Southeast Asia to Bedouin Arabia.
These patchwork pieces are fabrics of contemplation, in dialogue with nature. The natural world speaks to me, and I try to respond.
The palette is collected from my decades-old stash of fabric, colors found rather than mixed. Each piece is an ecosystem of colors, evoking the happenstance of color juxtapositions on a beach, in a streambed, a meadow, or a forest. Each one is its own world, and I exist completely within that interactive space while it lasts.
All my work, in various media, has to do with immersion in a world, a moment, an interaction, giving full attention to what is here, what is happening now.
what is going on around here