Images:
Untitled new Kinetic Weaving
Hand Details of weaving a prototype
Shadow Effect
Courage
New Weaving trials, using Recycled Dry cleaning hangers,
conjures for me what Anand Giridharadas describes as
‘The Forgotten Vanished Power’.
Listening to Ezra K’s interview with Anand regarding
Epstein and his Networks of Power, I can’t help but feel
so much Anger about how women (and so many others)
have been treated and hushed over the years.
Reticent to make the true parallels in my work, using
Dry cleaning Hangers to share the See/Saw effect of my
Sadness and Anger… Learning about so many years of abuse, and
watching women’s rights being stripped away and their
angry voices being ignored, infuriates me.
I realize my narrative of these weavings has been hidden behind
transformation of materials and a story of sustainability.
Where the truth underlying the work was not just creating
beauty with the discarded materials, but to build reminders
of what women have had to endure for years.
The use of the hanger… “No wire hangers, ever,” Faye Dunaway
screeched, portraying Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest… about
those who have lived with abusive unconscious parents…
The hanger as a device dangerously used to aid in abortions.
I can’t bear to read stories of this type in our day and age after,
yet again, women’s rights to abortion have been stripped away.
I realize, even after ten years of meditation, there is still
a residue of noise in my head when it comes to these subjects.
I can’t ignore it. I need to recalibrate. Breathe and Meditate.
A hallmark of a meditator is… we must not ignore what needs
to be changed.
I will continue to do my daily practice and will no longer hide
behind the making of beautiful things, to forsake the shadow
of what is actually being woven and the true story behind WHY
I weave with this material.
(photo credit: Martin Crook, 2026)
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