The Holes in the Fabric of Forgetting

Ancestry Cloth is an esoteric act, a symbolic act, a metaphor for the immigrant, for the nomad, for the wanderer.  It is a daily meditation, weaving together a forgetful monochromatic present with the colors and patterns just beyond memory. When I’m cutting...

Ancestors – India

To speak of Ancestors of to speak of the past in its human form.   Dad leaving IndiaAn Ancestor Cape I finished this weekAll my life I’ve thought about India.  Before I was born my father left on a ship.  It set his life on a course that took him...

Layers, Labyrinths and Ancestors

Mughals Dream  1996I’ve been so busy sewing cloth lately I can’t find time to write, but I have thoughts floating through my mind that threaten to leave me if I don’t give them my full attention.  Thoughts can be fickle and needy that way....