Skip to content

Category Archives: Projects

Orchid

Monday, December 12, 2011

Been thinking about orchids this past week. In June, I love wandering around in the woods in Vermont looking for them. There is one stretch of stream in the kingdom that just wanders around and back onto itself, creating little islands and rivulets among the roots of old cedar. There are plants that pop up [...]

Also filed in Drawing, Fabric, Plants | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Triangles

Thursday, December 1, 2011

I’ve been feverish recently, thinking about the ways that equilateral triangles interact with each other, and can be created by shearing off the corner of a cube, then re-assembled into different patterns. Just wanted to show it explored a few different ways: as a ceiling, shade canopy and as a scarf. Made all these in [...]

Also filed in Fabric | | Comments (1)

Spore prints

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Irene brought huge amounts of rain to Vermont and the forests are booming with mushrooms. I’ve been wandering and collecting. Leaving the caps on a piece of paper overnight, spores fall into different patterns depending on the structure of the gills.

Also filed in Inspirational Source Material, Plants | Tagged , , , | Comments (4)

On the first dark night…

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Part of a series of posts about a residency at Hlaðan in Iceland. So there was only one dark night during my entire stay in Iceland. After a delicious lobster and mussel feast toasted with a local berry wine (thank you gracious hosts of Minni-Vogar), I walked home at about 2:00 in the morning, which [...]

Also filed in Fabric, Inspirational Source Material, Portfolio | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Temple Assembly

Friday, August 5, 2011

Part of a series of posts about a residency at Hlaðan in Iceland. Here is a series of photographs taken during the construction of the felt temple. You can see how the whole structure is composed and draped over strings under tension, and built up from the bottom to top in the same manner as [...]

Also filed in Fabric, Portfolio | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (2)