Handwoven cotton from the Johnson Woolen Mills, VT, handspun hemp by the late Joanna Crosby, sparkles, and time.
This body of work is an exploration in text and textiles from the same root word, texere, Latin for to weave. Organizing the conjunction of figures into motifs within a framework, is the final stage of symbolic imagery before it becomes writing, which may or may not include letters but which reports spoken language either in ideographic or some other form. Wanting to be site-specific to the library, I plan to use the childhood rhyme of “The Itsy Bitsy Spider,” but code the text through weaving on my floor loom to abstract the visuals of the textile.
Featured at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library of Montpelier, Vermont.