Loss and Forgiveness are universal, timeless themes, this was about a specific time in my life and these works are an attempt to share some of the emotional quality.

Process can have a rhythm to it. Especially when you work in a series, the work develops its own rhythm. With Sh’eva Each of the 10’ x 9’ panels is made of a different fiber, each panel took about a week.

Paper made from Milkweed, Willow leaf, eel grass, cat tail, iris leaf, Queen Anne’s lace and flax, are all hanging from willow branches that are suspended from White Birch poles laying across the rafters 3 stories up.

Moving and shifting on the gentlest of air currents, the piece seemed to breathe, walking through and around it one got the feeling of being shielded by a cocoon.

Unbearable Loss is based on the moment the spirit leaves, flies out the window, and the two figures left behind. Soaked and bent willow branches are the structure connected by flax and seaweed paper that encircles a heart-shaped stone.

The gallery was transformed into a hushed temple where viewers could walk into the sculptures and around the space, contemplating “Loss and Forgiveness” two very human emotion we all share, and share with many non-humans as well.