I came to weaving on a winding path: first through interest in tea ceremony, then plant-dyed textiles to support that practice, then beading and bead weaving, and finally fiber weaving. Despite having knitted when I was in middle and high school, I never quite considered how fabric is produced, by winding one thread through another. The tangibility of creating something with weight and texture immediately hooked me.

I weave how I paint: unplanned, making a first move and then improvising as the piece takes shape. Weaving on a loom, one winds up the fabric that has been produced, making previous work invisible as one proceeds. Thus there is an element of surprise when the entire composition is finished and unrolled, and I am just like another viewer taking in the piece for the first time.

My intention is never to create something “perfect”. (How boring!) Like several of the media I work in, weaving is well-suited to recording its process: thread ends and loops, for example, are both an integral structural component and also an element of color, texture, composition. Variations in texture, size, material, and structure are what charm and enthrall me about this medium.