A series of cotton threads hold an expanded sense of time, suspended by stones that maintain tension and allow the weft to pass through, weaving the present moment.

Past and future intertwine as the loom opens. A hand-spun, hand-dyed thread travels from side to side, transforming a single strand into cloth.This work approaches textile archaeology as a method of making and thinking. Reconstructing a warp-weighted loom is an act of learning  through repetition, sequence and rhythm. Knowledge is carried in the gesture, in the slowness of the process, in the negotiation between material and hand.

To rebuild an ancestral technology is to engage with time differently.  The loom becomes a site where past techniques are reworked as living structures that continue to produce meaning. A series of wooden looms now rest in the studio of Frances van Hasselt in Prince Albert, as a trace of my time in that landscape. Built through days of work under the intensity of the desert sun, they remain as both object and record.

The loom becomes a measure of time: a structure held in tension, a space where making is thinking, and where memory is continuously produced through the act of weaving.