In // Habit
A quartet of 6ft x 2ft (yoga mat sized) hooked ‘yarn paintings’ speak to the rewards of both personal ritual and communal practice as an antidote to other numbing habits, addictions and distractions. This crafting ‘makes permanent’, not perfect, creating more ease and receptivity to adaptive growth, and new dimensions of perception and renewal.
'In//habit' embodies a deep and universal rumbling, and an undeniable reckoning toward connection. A tactile transmutation of shame to grace, fear to love, woe to wisdom.
“I love yarn’s ability to tell a story in increments. A narrative formed by tiny acts of pure intention, stitch by stitch or loop by loop, feels much like a line of cursive writing, or the ever-evolving lines on our hands and faces. I prefer using worn and up-cycled materials to create my own yarns because they carry their own soulful energy and weight. I am enchanted by the alchemy and reinvention that is possible through the materials, which also mirror my own mutability.”
- interview in Uppercase Encyclopedia of Inspiration, YARN•THREAD•STRING
Initiation
Initiation: 1. the action of beginning something. 2. the introduction of someone to a particular activity or skill. 3. the action of admitting someone into a secret or group, typically through ritual.
6ft x 2ft
Materials: donated wool blankets, recycled saris and t-shirts, hand dyed-spun wool, inherited silk fabrics and parachute cord.
2019
Purification
Purification: 1. the removal of contaminants from something. 2. the process of extracting something from a substance. 3. the process of making something spiritually or ceremonially clean.
6ft x 2ft
Materials: husband’s well worn denim jeans, my painted-cotton dresses (blue and pink), hot yoga sweat towel, recycled silk saris and t-shirts, donated vintage wool blankets, and parachute cord.
2019
Transmutation
Transmutation: 1. the action of changing or the state of being changed into another form. 2. the change of some essential element into a superior form.
6ft x 2ft
Materials: donated vintage wool blankets, recycled silk saris and t-shirts, raw wool gift from brother’s travel to Colombia, hand dyed and spun wools and parachute cord.
2019
Contemplation
Contemplation: 1. the action of looking thoughtfully at something for a very long time. 2. deep reflective thought. 3. a form of prayer or meditation in which a person seeks to pass beyond mental images and concepts to a direct experience of the divine.
6ft x 2ft
Materials: donated vintage wool blanket from my yoga studio, recycled silk saris and t-shirts, hand dyed and spun wools and parachute cord.
2019
