Woven Time and Place

Weaving is rich with metaphors for life and heritage. In working with weaving traditional and non-traditional materials the past and present can exist in the same time frame. In order to weave something together on a loom you have to start with one material to be you warp first.  This goes on to the loom, attached to all of the moving parts and threaded into all of the heddles.  From there you prepare you material for the weft to weave over and under the warp.  The time between these two layers separates them while simultaneously blends them into one piece.  In this way, weaving is life.  Our past experiences inform our present experiences.  As we live through an event in the now, our brain immediately starts to process, categorize, and tries to understand the event, as it is happening. The only way in which it can do this is by drawing on what it already knows from the past. The memory starts forming right away, but as memory is only formed on what we know, and not what we don’t know, it is inherently faulty.  The perception is one sided.  To get more of the full understanding we would need to know what other around us are thinking and processing.  Our feelings of place and home feed into our understanding of ourselves and those around us as well.  Some people fully identify with one place as a large part of who they are as an individual, while others identify with multi places or even no place at all.  Time, place, and experiences all combine in different ways to create the fabric that is our lives and our connections to others.


Fragmented remembrances from Dad –  Holiday Visit with Mother, Wallpaper strips, thread, vellum strips, curtains, 2021
Left to Right from the top:
Land Locked, Archival pigment ink image of Kentucky farmland hand woven with image of Lake Superior pebble beach, 2021
Looking North and South, Archival pigment ink image from US Mexican border, 2022
Thinking of Summer Camping, Archival pigment ink image of Kentucky window handwoven with image of Lake Michigan beach, 2021
The Woodshed, Archival pigment ink image of Kentucky fence and trees handwoven with image of woodshed from childhood home, 2021 Kentucky Morning Sunshine : Six years apart, Archival pigment ink image of Kentucky bed and breakfast window handwoven with image of Kentucky cabin bedroom window, 2021.
Fields of Gold, Archival pigment ink image of Kentucky flowers and Arizona grass, 2022

Fragmented Remembrances from Childhood Summers with Sister, Wallpaper strips, thread, vellum strips, curtains, 2021

Left to Right:
Kentucky Barn on the way to Dad’s I, Archival pigment ink print handwoven with fabric, 2021
Kentucky Barn on the way to Dad’s III, Archival pigment ink print handwoven with fabric, 2021
Kentucky Barn on the way to Dad’s II, Archival pigment ink print handwoven with fabric, 2021

Reclaiming Myself, Archival pigment ink image of Red River Gorge hand woven with collected fabric, vellum and tracing paper, 2022

Keeping up Appearances, Archival pigment ink image of Kentucky waterfall hand woven with fabric repurposed from a theater production, 2021

Morning Coffee By a Fire (with detail), Archival pigment ink images of Kentucky woods and Superstition Mountains in Arizona hand woven together, 2022