Engaging the project:

I have written extensively about what inspired this project in the Duluth 2020 section of this website. I share an Artist Statement and speak to Epigenetics, a period of History that impacted my family story, and how all of this informs my process of Unweaving Whiteness. You may engage this content on this website indefinitely. I also offer questions that you may engage before, during, and after your visit - that I will share further down this page.

When you visit:

My hope is that you will enter one of the structures and notice a shift in your perspective as you stand or sit, look out at the view, and notice the textures of the weavings. I love to lay on my back on the wooden platform and look up at the weaving & sky. My gravity shifts as my body settles into a resting position. I feel close to the earth and held by the tree branches floating above. Sun illuminates the bright yellow structure and my eyes study the details of the literal warp and weft, absorbing texture and feeling the grit of my hands’ work. Wind makes its presence known as the hanging fringes of weft sway back and forth creating a rustling scrish-scrish as their edges rub against each other. Time stills and intuitions open …

Questions for myself:

What would happen if I let go of binary labels like “good/bad” and “right/wrong” ?

What is keeping me from seeing all that I cannot see?

What happens if I let go of needing to be right or good?

Questions for your visit:

Are there any stories or secrets that were kept hidden in your family?

How have you unknowingly adapted your behavior or view of the world around that story or void?

What are you willing to reconsider about yourself in light of new information?