Naturally Dyed Reed with Black Tea, Dried curly grasses from my home and Paper string.
H20"xW17"
This work rises like a forest—five clusters of uprights, uneven at their base yet converging into a natural geometry at the crown. They defy the rules of traditional basketry, much like trees themselves defy order, bending and reaching toward light. In their asymmetry, a new harmony is born.
The making was a meditation, a puzzle without an answer, a form that revealed itself only through surrender. It carried me into the deep silence of old-growth forests, where even in death, trees nurture life. Their presence endures in every stage: seed and seedling, sapling, towering trunk, standing ghost, fallen elder. Each phase offers shelter, nourishment, renewal.
The purple hues recall the hills of Creemore on the Niagara Escarpment, grounding the work in place while speaking to the cycles of growth and decay. This piece is a reminder that in the forest—as in life—every ending feeds a beginning, and all flourishing is mutual.
Naturally Dyed Reed with Black Tea, Dried curly grasses from my home and Paper string.
H20"xW17"
This work rises like a forest—five clusters of uprights, uneven at their base yet converging into a natural geometry at the crown. They defy the rules of traditional basketry, much like trees themselves defy order, bending and reaching toward light. In their asymmetry, a new harmony is born.
The making was a meditation, a puzzle without an answer, a form that revealed itself only through surrender. It carried me into the deep silence of old-growth forests, where even in death, trees nurture life. Their presence endures in every stage: seed and seedling, sapling, towering trunk, standing ghost, fallen elder. Each phase offers shelter, nourishment, renewal.
The purple hues recall the hills of Creemore on the Niagara Escarpment, grounding the work in place while speaking to the cycles of growth and decay. This piece is a reminder that in the forest—as in life—every ending feeds a beginning, and all flourishing is mutual.
