Statement

In my Handwoven Drawings series, I developed an innovative method that unifies drawing and weaving. I draw on the surface of soft wood, cut the wood into thin strips, and then weave the painted wood slats back together on a floor loom. A new, integrated composition emerges.

These compositions function as Rorschach-esque paracosms referencing disintegration, abandonment, restoration, and organic growth. Unlike abstract Rorschach blots, my images emerge from specific trees that can be located on a map.

Trees are true to their time and place, have a long history, and are powerful players in people’s physical and psychological survival. The focus on the deep significance of trees and direct connection to human wellbeing echoes in a particularly relevant way in our present planetary predicament.

Spanning a wide range of other interests, my work also includes large-scale, interactive, site-specific elastic installations such as Tensions (2015), Singulars (2017), Multipluses (2018, 2019 &2022), and on-the-body, wearable elastic devices designed for innovative experiments with individual and shared body movements (2003; 2008; 2015; 2022-ongoing). These works explore the way bodies interact within fixed and non-fixed, elastic limitations and potential.