image weaving & Haiku

Inner movement. Outer expression.

A smiling woman with gray hair wearing silver hoop earrings and a white shirt, inside a home with shelves, pictures, and a rainbow-colored light reflection on her forehead.

artist statement

Living in the duality of our world is a constant dance between opposites — up/down, past/present, left/right, high/low — the opposites are everywhere.

Movement between one state and another, and being with both states, requires a certain amount of grace and allowance both within ourselves and in our relationships with others. In my woven art, I express my experience of singular movements in which we can be present with opposites.

I use photographs I’ve taken to combine two opposite perspectives and weave them into a new coherent image. Moments of individual experience are expressed as a ‘sphere of being’ poised within the opposites. I think of these as points between internal and external infinity. I feel that we can each choose, moment to moment, to be a part of the whole and wholly ourselves.

Finally, I write the haiku as a further exploration of my thought process as I live within and between opposites and create images of unity and inclusion.