Materials for this project were gathered throughout 2024-2025, as I traveled abroad on a Watson Fellowship studying traditional fiber craft and sound in relation to local environmental knowledge. I kept a woven journal of materials, partially as a way to begin to understand these unfamiliar places I was encountering at such a fast pace. I collected materials and recorded sounds as I walked, and kept little bits of plant fiber or scrap that other artists gifted me as they shared parts of their practices. Throughout the year, I wove on a Backstrap loom that fit in my suitcase, and created 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 also sewed and dyed the underdress using Madder Root. At I-Park, I developed the electronic light sensor interface, using Arduino to sample audio recordings captured over the course of the year.

 

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