Here in Minnesota, we’ve survived a period of intense cold. Three days of bitterly cold temperatures well below zero (Farenheit) made it a good time to make a pot of tea and reflect on things the work I’ve done over the past month, and make plans for the next 6 weeks (when spring might arrive in the North).

My challenge for January was to pick up where I left off in Finland, and translate the media explorations on paper into textile sketches in larger scale. I wanted to fill my wall with samples, experiments, and models. My big question is still “what does a conversation look like?” as I work with words and also tone and cadence.

Is a conversation linear? Sort of.

The exchange between two people is back and forth, and can be round-about or straight to a point, static or fluid. According to a software designer:

Now that sounds like a piece of art I’d like to make!