We are part of an interconnected natural world that is continually undergoing transformation. Living creatures breathe, exchanging air molecules. The earth itself “breathes”: grasses bend in the wind and tectonic plates slowly shift, over many eons, reconfiguring continents, oceans, and climatic patterns. This awareness informs my Jacquard weavings of wind-blown pine needles, lacy insect-ravaged leaves, coiled wood shavings, or dried grasses—imagery that echoes physical structures traditional to fibers, such as linear elements, weave patterns, knots, netting, grids, and interlacements. I often focus on these subjects at close range, the better to experience them.