My first weaving collection goes live - this Friday (9th April), 12 noon Eastern
Come by and visit my shop tomorrow
Friday (9th April)
Cost range from $40 - $60
The Whirlpool of Corryvrecken
A few years ago I got to take a boat trip out to visit the Corryrecken Whirlpool, not too far from the town of Oban, on the west coast of Scotland. I tell the story each Samhain of how the Cailleach wades out into the water to wash her plaid in the churning waters of this great whirlpool.
As she lifts the cloth from the waters and shakes it dry, water drops freeze instantly and turn the tops of the surrounding hills white in the first dusting of snow.
It's a whole other thing to visit the whirlpool and see first hand the great bubbles of water rising from the depths, for this is a cauldron that churns everything up and so everyone is fed - from the gulls and the gannets, the porpoises, and seals.
Spring Tides
Spring Tides happen every month as the waters dance with the pull of the moon. If we return to that place of feeling, of noticing the ebb and flow, in tune with our own internal rhythms.
Fraoch
Fraoch is the Gaelic word for Heather. This piece is a fraoch map, a heather map - sitting among the heather on one of my favorite hills, surrounded by the buzzing of bees. The mustard tones are the pollen the bees are collecting but also the golden color of the sun and its angle as it begins to descend and sets the sky alight in hues of gold. The map holds golden tones as a reference to the dance of the bees and how their dance references the changing direction of the sun.
Rockpools
Little circular weavings inspired by walks along Scottish beaches peering into perfectly framed rock pools. Pools whose creatures have adapted to a possible drying up completely and then the eventual submersion as the tide comes in again.
