SPECIMEN

This ongoing series consists of small textile art pieces that employ hand tatting around natural, found objects. Intuitively crafted, each piece is a mediation on my personal relationship with nature.

In these pieces, I use the traditional technique of hand tatting in a non-traditional way, allowing the object and my own intuition to determine where connections are formed.

None of the objects I use are plucked or stolen— I take debris from the ground that is already dry. The process of tatting around these objects is careful and meditative. When pieces are brittle, a delicate hand is necessary to interact with them without breaking them.