I feel privileged to find myself captivated by two ageless mediums: silk filament woven into cloth and the raw stuff of the earth, decomposed rock. When I work with clay, a dense medium into which no light penetrates, I feel connected to it’s world: sturdy, timeless, quiet. I marvel at the process and feel of this medium that moves fluidly thru my hands, and which can be coaxed into endless possible forms. Warp and weft of cloth offers a structure and rigidity that clay does not! Dyeing and stitching are fascinating tools of manipulation and I’m busy working with this vocabulary, whether I use transparent or opaque fibers. My clay background informs my work in fiber as I seem drawn to coaxing from the fiber shapes that are more irregular and organic in feeling. Lately I’ve been working with light-suffused silk organza or stitching clay mono-prints with invisible thread. The promise of light in the art and exploring the nuances of transparency have become vehicles for expression which I’m continuing to pursue.