shimmer, 2022

hand woven, knotted and bound cord

84 x 104 cm

shimmer is a work that relates to my experience of mapping a landscape I viewed when on a train from Paris to Amsterdam. In the map, I included details I observed travelling from the built environment to rural fields filled with luminous pink tulips. I felt compelled to respond to the shift between the forms and the rhythms I experienced. 

There is a pattern to the structure and texture in the unique and interlocking method which is complex. Built instinctively using many different stitches, the form developed, due to a constant dialogue between myself and the material that changed every day. The taut tension increased, expressed across the surface of the textile contrasting with the cast shadows. Over the many months of making this work, the act of production became a distilled meditation that connected the woven grid and a new experience of the intense memory of landscape.