Now we are experiencing the subtle shift which the equinox brings to us, from dark to light.
When I was designing this work, however, we were in the waning days of late autumn, as night overtakes day.
Listening to the quiet voices of the chaparral, I heard echoes of my own voice amidst the call of the artemisia (aka California sagebrush).
I gathered the last of the blooms, now mostly seed pods, and wove them into yarns of wool and cotton, using a tapestry technique know as “clasping”: two shuttles, one entering each side of the shed and wrapping around each other within the shed, in this instance forming a line of dark and light. The mix of blue yarns in the warp represent rain — as my friend Tim so aptly pointed out when he saw the piece.
It’s on display at 2Create Gallery, at the east end of Main Street in Ramona. 17” x 24” $332
