I am both a printmaker and a fiber artist. In both media, my images are, in large part, inspired by my interest in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and my own experiences of landscape in the diverse places I have lived (Minneapolis, Chicago, San Francisco, Taiwan, and Italy). Bishop, too, is interested in exploring geography—both physical navigations between her homes in Boston, Nova Scotia, New York, Florida, and Rio de Janeiro, and the emotional navigation of personal relationships:
“Is
it lack of imagination that makes us come
to imagined places, not just stay at home?
Or could Pascal have been not entirely right
about just sitting quietly in one’s room?
Continent, city, country, society:
the choice is never wide and never free.
And here, or there . . . No. Should we have stayed at home,
wherever that may be?”
(Elizabeth Bishop, “Questions of Travel”)
By recreating landscapes on my own terms, in my own colors, in my most recent weavings and prints, I develop a sense of home, wherever mine may be.