Two Places at Once

Handwoven linen, repurposed wool, and industry surplus mohair.

This work explores the tension between local and global systems. It challenges commercial-scale textile production by reappropriating yarn remnants deemed unusable at scale. Despite its local manufacture, the piece is made of (waste) products created for global markets. It exists exclusively at the intersection of the global and local. This tension is visually represented by each fibre harmonizing and contrasting with the others in both colour and texture.

The materials in TWO PLACES AT ONCE were thoughtfully chosen to reflect the tension between local and global systems. Just as the piece explores contrasts, so too do the materials: soft and rough, smooth and fuzzy. The warp is an undyed #10 tow linen. The weft combines an eggplant mohair (industry surplus from my previous neighbour, who was a yarn distributor) with a lime tartan wool (waste yarn from a twill sampler I wove earlier in the year). Together, these contrasting textures, colors, and fibers find harmony through their interlacement, creating a visual and tactile representation of balance.