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Gate

100% cotton
handwoven, dyed & bleached
{not wash-friendly}

2024
32½“ x 38¼Gate is an entrance, exit, and a marker of threshold. The textile is handwoven in cotton and dyed three times. The common wrought iron fence pattern is seared onto the woven surface like an apparition. 


METABOLIZE

100% cotton
handwoven, dyed & bedazzled

2024
14¼” x 64” in
METABOLIZE is the beginning of a series of works exploring physical and cultural consumption and metabolism.

Until the early 2000s, it was thought that eating food, digesting, and creating energy/discarding waste was a process of food becoming a part of the metabolizer’s body. In recent studies with mice, scientists have found that rice consumed by mice exist in trace amounts outside of its digestive system for long periods of time. These studies have altered the way that we understand the metabolization of food, to be more of an exchange process, rather than an absorption process. 

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✸✸    (eight-point star)

cotton, wool
handwoven and painted

2024



SSSSEEING THINGSSSS
painted cotton onsen towel

2024 Text and type design from Strange Magazine Number 3, Special Monster Issue (1988). 

Printed on a towel purchased at a hot spring spot. A cheap towel bought because I forgot my own. 

A one-ply towel. It’s rough in texture because its 100% cotton and a little sparse in pile and loosely woven. Still, the hot spring towel is easily the best, most versatile hand towel, easy to clean, sturdy, reliable towel I’ve ever had. 


For Health

100% cotton
handwoven, dyed, and bedazzled

2023
51½“ x 14½“ Text derived from a sheet of daily recitations, probably given to my grandmother by a care worker. The simple and child-like affirmations feel diminuitive for a person who has been alive for 91 years. 

For Health hangs vertically, like a kakejiku. Hand-dyed with care, and bedazzled. 
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cotton, jute
handwoven, cyanotype, screenprint
{not wash-friendly}

2023
9” x 11½”  garble is a woven sheet of graph paper. Cyanotype printed letters from various writing systems and screen printed warped characters from the japanese (hiragana) alphabet. The chemicals used in the cyanotype seep along the horizontal run of cotton and jute fibers. 
Calendar
painted cotton gauze, indigo dyed linen
sewn, sashiko stitched, folded, pinned, and painted

2024
Cotton gauze bedsheets (used 2020—2024). Succumbed to natural forces and retired out of service. Stacked like pages in a calendar, or a notepad. 

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