CYAN ELIZABETH

Woven Together in Her Womb, sticks, yarn, plarn, gold tinsel, 2025.

 This piece I created first started with creating the frame. I used sticks from the forests of Pine Mountain. I tied on my weft, using colors that were the colors of the bark, moss, and lichen on the sticks. I then wove in the grass, yarn, tinsel, and plarn. 

Nature is all connected to one another. What is happening in one corner affects the other. Our little backyard is a part of a bigger ecosystem. We also usually separate technology from nature, but these two are also connected. I used plarn (“yarn” made from plastic grocery bags) to show that our plastic materials are also a part of this conversation. I left many gaps in the weaving because even how we look at nature is a part of nature. In this piece, I wanted to get rid of the barriers we put up around nature, outside, parks, forests, meadows, preserves, it’s all happening together, now, and it’s all tugging, pulling, touching one another.