SAND and SEA and SKY
a trio of handspun crocheted tapestries that evoke the sense of vastness and awe of standing on the seashore and basking in the wonder of that experience
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EASE and CONNECTION and AWE
What does the water make you feel?
These pieces were created during the five week OCEAN Virtual Artist Residency program hosted by Moku Art Studio and MANGO.
Join me on Patreon for free to read about the making of this work and my experience with the residency and exploring this theme.
Please enjoy the galleries below for process pictures!
SAND
SEA
SKY
Many thanks to Moku Art Studio and MANGO
for hosting this amazing experience!
Be sure to check out the Open Studio recording
as well as the Exhibition
to see the final pieces from each of the nine participating artists!
Artist Statement
SAND and SEA and SKY
This trio of handspun and crocheted tapestries is a meditation on the colors and textures that greet me at the ocean’s edge here in Hawaii. When I stand on the shore, I feel a softness in my reflections, a moment of ease and connection. There’s a power that the ocean holds to tell stories of movement, memory, and place. I believe that art does this as well.
My artistic process is rooted in working with color intuitively, so each stage of creating these pieces—from fiber selection and sorting to spinning, plying, and finally crocheting—was an opportunity for me to reflect on my own memories and emotions connected to being near or in the water. Every time those fibers passed through my fingers, as I felt my way through the making of each fabric, it was another opportunity to imbue them with that energy.
It is amazing to me that a piece of art can absorb and hold and carry moments and emotions and memories and experiences with it to share with others over and over again. It’s a very special sort of magic, don’t you think? And so I’d like to invite you to pause and breathe and listen for the quiet pull of your own memories as you view this work. What does it make you feel?
״We are beginning to learn that our brains are hardwired to react positively to water and that being near it can calm and connect us, increase innovation and insight, and even heal what’s broken.״
- from the book Blue Mind by Wallace J. Nichols
SAND
SEA
SKY