Digital Weaving Process

The design process for these works mine aerial drone footage and architectural surface rubbings, capturing image stills of place, then transforming them digitally using mathematical strategies found in ancient architectural and textile pattern formation. The designs are then translated into the binary language of weaving and fed into the digital TC2 thread controller loom, then handwoven. Working back and forth between ancient haptic and contemporary digital methods as a way to honor time, loss, memory, the ephemeral, and futuristic possibilities – these ‘woven paintings’ serve as a source of momentary cartographic data and prayer flags simultaneously.

Butterfly

wool dyed with insects, barks and flowers, bamboo, polyester and metal threads, linen with offering of botryoidal hematite iron ore crystals, reclaimed mining bowl (37″ x 83″)

Aleppo Scroll

Scroll (Aleppo, Syria after 2015/ 36.2021 *N x 37.1343*E), cotton, metal, and light reflective thread

Scroll (Aleppo) lit conditions

Scroll (Aleppo, Syria after 2015/ 36.2021 *N x 37.1343*E) lit conditions

Green River Basin (41.528576 x 109.466248)

Aerial image alteration prepared for weaving. Hand-weaving forthcoming of cotton, metal, polyester, silk (40″ x 60″) (inquire)

Seeds-kee-dee-Agie (Prairie Hen)(40*24'28.19"N x -110*44'28.79"W)

Aerial image captured 7.19.2022/ alteration prepared for weaving. Hand-weaving forthcoming of cotton, metal, polyester, silk (58″ x 88″) (inquire)

Blood Moon Over Arctic Shelf Melt (Lunar Double)

Handwoven on TC-2 loom, silk, metal, cotton, safety yellow and neon poly thread, Spectra Fiber color “Moonshine”,  mounted on linen (74″ X 42″) (inquire)

Geode 12.24 (Darama Orogeny as a Funnel Estuary/ Naukluft massif, Namibia)

Geode 12.24 (Darama Orogeny as a Funnel Estuary/ Naukluft massif, Namibia), handwoven wool, linen and silk dyed with insects, barks and flowers, and cotton with offering of degraded azurite mineral stones, emerald rough stones, marble bowl

Ursa Major

Ursa Major (Mount Shasta, California, USA/ 41.4088*N x 122.1949*W handwoven on digital loom/ metal thread, cotton mounted on bleached linen, (48″x 28.5″) (inquire)

Pheonix

Phoenix (Hindu Kush Mountains, Afghanistan/ 36*14.45”N x 71*50’38″E) Handwoven on digital loom/ metal thread, cotton, silk mounted on bleached linen, (45″ x 28″) (inquire)

Phoenix

Phoenix (Hindu Kush Mountains, Afghanistan….) detail

White Panther Deity

White Panther Deity (Mount Shasta, California, USA/ 41.4099*N x 122.1949*W) handwoven/ metal, silk, cotton mounted on bleached linen (34.5″ x 28″) (inquire)

Barcelona

Handwoven on digital hand loom Silk, cotton, polyester thread (44″ x 62″)

Lar for Civita

Lar for Civita, handwoven/ cotton, metal thread, neon polyester, silk (73.5″ x 42″)

Mudwrestle Mashup

Mississippi Delta Drought Mask

Aerial Drone image alteration prepared for weaving. Hand-weaving forthcoming of cotton, wool, silk (44″ x 66″) (inquire)

It begins with dust, sun, water, mud

it begins with dust, sun, water, mud, bits of fin, claw, mandible; deposits in the bank of Time (title borrowed from poem by Susan Barba), 2024, wool and silk dyed with insects, barks and flowers, linen and cotton (67.5″ x 42″)

it beings with dust (detail)

it begins with dust (detail)