Materials for this project were gathered throughout 2024-2025, as I traveled on a Watson Fellowship studying traditional fiber craft and sound in relation to local environmental knowledge. I kept a woven journal, collecting materials and recorded sounds as I walked, keeping little bits of plant fiber or scrap that other artists gifted me as they shared their practices. Throughout the year, I wove on a backstrap loom that fit in my suitcase, creating each woven journal entry on a small, packable scale. At the Icelandic Textile Center, I disassembled these annotated journal entries and embedded this material into a larger double weave wool garment, created on a countermarch floor loom. I sewed and dyed the underdress using Madder Root, and at I-Park, I developed the electronic photocell interface, using Arduino and Max to build a light sensitive sampler.

 

This piece is both a memory and a map of spaces traversed, a method of storytelling through sound and body.