A STUDY
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New York, NY
This project uses weaving as a method to study landscapes and record palimpsest. On Governors Island, I studied and wove the vegetative edge of the island as a record of this particular time and place. While walking the 2.16 miles of the shore, my steps acted as the warp yarns on a loom, with collected plant material as weft. The circle of plants draw out the secondary vegetative edge of the island offset from the water’s edge. By making this invisible boundary legible, we can assess the potential gap (and gap of potential) between the tidal and vegetative edges of Governors Island. In addition, shadow box weavings hold material memory objects and perform as architectural edges that delineate the vegetative edge in space. They are a boundary object between past history and future changes on the island.