Meet Me in the Garden (Outpouring)
Close Up - Front
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2022
91” H x 102” W
Photographic woven tapestry, cotton-, polyester-, viscose thread, hand dyed cotton cord
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Thread cascades from my floral tapestries as if nature is unraveling.
Combining floral photography, woven tapestry, thread & traditional handcraft techniques, I make textile “gardens” where human-scaled flowers, symbolizing both the natural world & our humanity, are fraying & coming undone.
These garden tapestries represent the blurred, interconnectedness of our natural & social environments – all fragile, weakened, in need of care & solutions for repair.
Within the tapestries, beauty & destruction often hold the same space.
Dismantled areas speak to how environments have been coming undone “one thread at a time”, while additive threads, stitching, patchwork are intended as gestures of mending: the handwork, an act of restoration & healing by human effort.
In Outpouring (Meet Me in the Garden), flowers show evidence of harm in varying degrees; fully to partially uprooted, unthreaded & cut - with damaged areas pooling out onto the floor.
The threads, as they fall downward, suggest an unraveling that cannot be rewound to their original state.
Using thread as material holds meaning. In a purely functional sense, thread is meant to repair things, to reconnect what is torn.
Conversely the “unthreaded” flowers convey harm & have experienced ruin; in this sense, thread becomes a metaphor for devastation.
Thread simultaneously speaks for what has & continues coming apart in our natural & social systems, while implying a solution for reparative change.
Considered “remnants”, the fallen threads are symbolic of what remains & what is left to work with if the choice is made to move towards repair.
Holistically, these textile gardens focus on themes of reconciliation, empathy building & a call to unify, mend & restore.
Subject matter, material selection & handwork techniques are intentional & symbolic of the human choice, action & difficult labor needed for environmental preservation, social repair & to ensure thriving & flourishing for all living beings within our collective, shared home.
The act of rebuilding anything significant is empathetic & endurance-based work. It could start simply in a tapestry garden – one flower, one conversation, one stitch, one thread at a time.
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2022
91” H x 102” W
Photographic woven tapestry, cotton-, polyester-, viscose thread, hand dyed cotton cord
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Thread cascades from my floral tapestries as if nature is unraveling.
Combining floral photography, woven tapestry, thread & traditional handcraft techniques, I make textile “gardens” where human-scaled flowers, symbolizing both the natural world & our humanity, are fraying & coming undone.
These garden tapestries represent the blurred, interconnectedness of our natural & social environments – all fragile, weakened, in need of care & solutions for repair.
Within the tapestries, beauty & destruction often hold the same space.
Dismantled areas speak to how environments have been coming undone “one thread at a time”, while additive threads, stitching, patchwork are intended as gestures of mending: the handwork, an act of restoration & healing by human effort.
In Outpouring (Meet Me in the Garden), flowers show evidence of harm in varying degrees; fully to partially uprooted, unthreaded & cut - with damaged areas pooling out onto the floor.
The threads, as they fall downward, suggest an unraveling that cannot be rewound to their original state.
Using thread as material holds meaning. In a purely functional sense, thread is meant to repair things, to reconnect what is torn.
Conversely the “unthreaded” flowers convey harm & have experienced ruin; in this sense, thread becomes a metaphor for devastation.
Thread simultaneously speaks for what has & continues coming apart in our natural & social systems, while implying a solution for reparative change.
Considered “remnants”, the fallen threads are symbolic of what remains & what is left to work with if the choice is made to move towards repair.
Holistically, these textile gardens focus on themes of reconciliation, empathy building & a call to unify, mend & restore.
Subject matter, material selection & handwork techniques are intentional & symbolic of the human choice, action & difficult labor needed for environmental preservation, social repair & to ensure thriving & flourishing for all living beings within our collective, shared home.
The act of rebuilding anything significant is empathetic & endurance-based work. It could start simply in a tapestry garden – one flower, one conversation, one stitch, one thread at a time.