Each panel in Weave of Life carries its own story. While the installation is meant to be experienced as a whole, sometimes it helps to slow down and look closely at a single piece. This panel brings together fabric, encaustic wax, and a gel print on paper. Each material holds its own history and energy. The fabric introduces texture from reclaimed pieces of samples that once lived another life. The gel print is a memory created with my sister-in-law, Liz, introducing me to geli prints for my...

The panel reads: “Long waits, dire conditions for migrants in US.”An article headline from the Journal Gazzette, February 10, 2026 It is not an easy sentence to sit with. It is not decorative. It is not abstract. It carries weight. As with life, The Weave of Life is not only about what is beautiful, soft, or comfortable. A true weaving holds tension. It holds contrast. It holds threads we might rather trim away. But if we remove every difficult strand, we are left with something dishonest. If...

The first panels are officially underway. I’m currently working with fabric samples I collected last year through Zero Landfill Day at Wunderkammer Company. Some of the panels use the fabric just as it is, mounted directly onto the surface. Others begin to shift as I add encaustic and additional materials, letting the wax interact with the fibers in unexpected ways. I love how the fabric holds its own, but also how it changes when layered—becoming something new without losing its original...