What the Water Carries, 2026

What the Water Carries, 2026

Wool, cotton, linen, polyester, rope, hook, seashells, rocks, photos, armature

75 x 27 x 27 in

I connect with the water in my hometown by observing how it flows and making reference drawings of its movement. I then translate those observations into line drawings, which I embroider onto knitted or felted textiles.

Rivers move in ways that are often unpredictable to humans. The movement of water and the natural elements within it are living systems in their own right. They form their own paths and futures, with or without human intervention. They carry energy, emotion, and memory in their movement. A river can move fast enough to overwhelm, yet it takes thousands of years to turn a rock into a pebble. By the time that pebble moves downstream, the world’s memory of us may already be gone. What we create is not meant to last forever, but to exist in the moment, and we build knowing it is temporary. To be human is to create, to make life and art in our own way.