This is a series of textiles that are channels for grief, purging, healing, and repair. They are openings that invite connection to the world of the unseen - to ancestors, shadows, and ghosts.
Kunst Covenant VII, 2023-2024 undyed mercerized cotton warp, an unkosher blend of wool, linen, and silk yarn, a luxurious blend of merino and silk, gifted sari silk, metallic yarn, steel brazed with bronze, composted ancestral grief and the unseen ripples of protest 80 x 61 x 24 inches
Doykeit (Yiddish, “Hereness”), 2024 mercerized cotton warp, handspun 2 ply yarn made of raw wool from a friend of a friend’s farm in Tubas, West Bank, Palestine twisted with raw wool from a friend of a friend’s farm in my home state of California, discarded leather from the family of an undocumented friend, usnea lichen, 15 x 63 x 5 inches
"Smoke and Gold and Breathing," 2024, undyed cotton warp, brass and aluminum wires, Mx dyed cotton, wool roving, silk, merino, and linen blended yarn, Leonard Cohen's voice, my lover's lips, Coastal Redwood ghosts, and Chicago winter, dimensions variable
Come/Cry for Mama, 2023, undyed cotton warp, mohair femme-icure, merino wool, an unkosher blend of wool, linen, and silk yarn, cotton thread flames, metallic and mohair entrails, and brass wire, 89 x 70 inches
The Kunst Covenant III, 2023, Undyed cotton warp, Mx dyed cotton in the hues of purge, merino and alpaca wool yarns, copper wire, and composted ancestral trauma on synthetic polymers, 29 x 66 x 38 inches
The Kunst Covenant IV, 2023, Jaquard woven undyed cotton warp, Jagger Spun wool dirt, metallic threads of regret, the footprints of a pacing wild cat on cracked earth, Grandma Ella and Mawmaw, and a wordless melody, 26 x 37 inches
Lines to Amdur (side 1), 2023, Jaquard woven undyed cotton warp, wool, Mx dyed cotton, and a splash of electric trash acrylic yarn, 28 x 25.75 inches
Lines to Amdur (side 2)
Taco Sunset/Pancake Moon, 2023, merino and alpaca wools, gifted sari silk, and thrifted yarns
