My current work explores the connections between atmosphere, landscape, light and color. I focus on how these elements relate back to the viewer and their changing experience of a space. Seasonal and daily cycles shift the air and light of our natural surroundings, creating new environments. They soften the light and alter how we perceive color and space. There is something about the infinity of an endless seascape, a cloud-laden horizon or a misty forest that feels vast and majestic. These places form the subject matter I hope to engage with in my work, capturing the color and light at the moment when they feel ephemeral and otherworldly. At their core, I considered my work landscapes that have been simplified down to the most essential elements of line, form and color. Using hand dyeing and weaving, I create dimension by layering colors, often forming geometric blocks that reflect horizon lines. The structure of the woven grid organizes and balances hand-painted fields of color. I love this duality in the process. Hand weaving is methodical and slow, a carefully counted alignment of threads. It creates order that is built slowly with each interwoven end. Intersecting yarns form points of color that vibrate against each other and enhance the intensity of their neighbors. Distance forms new colors as the threads are blended by the viewer?s eye. But viewed at the micro level, and the colors unfold and give up their stories. As they are plied and woven together, the details of each painted thread form the canvas and create a completely new color experience of the work.