My approach to weaving balances a precise organization of blending color and pattern within the warp (y-axis), with an intuitive application of weft (x-axis). I use weaving as a tool for traversing the binary, the authority of the grid, and to explore what lies at the peripherals of this system, what I call, “the edges of the field”. Once the warp is tensioned on the loom, I am free to experiment with color and pattern: playing in cooperation with my materials and technologies.
Beyond my weaving practice is a landscape of image-making with cyanotype - using transparency, drawing, and sunlight to realize my prints. Both print plate and loom allow me to produce iteratively, and to temper the mechanics of craft with a surrender to natural forces. I accept how the principles that govern my process also govern me, and all living organisms. I invite my viewers to consider each object a piece of a grand ecosystem: one that, like the river, is thorough and all-encompassing.
Draw a ribbon of light upon the waters…
Reach in and hold this love
like a stone in the palm of your hand.
Let it saturate you
(then let it go)
— Faithful Records, by Katie Miller, Spring 2023.