Handwoven tapestry with yarn and beads
18 x 40 x 7 inches
In ritual, I sit at the loom each day to weave glimmers of when the natural world met my spirit.
I allow my body to hurt for the creation of a personal relic, dancing in tension between devotion and pain.
Suspended midair, the tapestry's beginning and end reveal its original thread structure when woven on the loom. For 2 months, every day, I wove for several hours or up to half day's time.
This practice emerged alongside my investigation of Kesi through Chinese dynasties, a technically demanding, time consuming slit-tapestry weaving technique which translates to carved silk or carved colors.
The slits in the tapestry make the surface come to life and are points of fragility that will morph, dance, and sever through time.
