Of Earth

Of Earth grounds itself in geological beauty. These works feature crystal beads and paints made from mineral pigments, hand-mulled in my studio. Many of the stones I grind into pigment I also stitch as beads into my fiber works, creating a material loop where stone becomes color and texture, paint and adornment. This thread began with a single question: What is in my paints? In unmaking the commercial paint tube, I not only gained a more intricate relationship to my materials, but was released from my fear of wasting my “good” paints. I now paint with a mix of studio-made and commercially made paints on cotton paper, the same fiber with which I warp my loom, trusting that no experiment is wasted when everything holds potential.