STAR ornament 020 (fabric: ROOT/RAVEL)

This sweet little star ornament is made by me from fabric from my second & third collection: ROOT & RAVEL.

Each star is about 3 inches by 3 inches at the widest point.

About the ROOT collection:


ROOT: something embedded, fundamental, and very connected to the whole. the origin of something; also the foundation. where one thing comes from. a current starting point and a connector to future becoming. what might be found in math, code & trees? in us? For the fabric collection that makes up ROOT, I wanted to use the language already inherent in the fields of mathematics, computing, ecology, and linguistics to draw my way into some kind of shared space between the worlds & possibly uncover where they trickle into one another. If the patterns in GLYPHS were pre-language, nestled in between black and white before systems were built, then the ROOT collection is rushing forward with shapes and ideas colliding, with color running wild on the surface.

About the RAVEL collection:


Working on RAVEL was an amazing opportunity to continue my visual exploration into shapes. For this collection, I focused on the modern Roman alphabet (aka the 26 letterforms from A—Z ) as the primary shapes I wanted to work with. RAVEL became a collection of prints about these shapes coming together and falling apart. While creating, my main questions circled around a.) How can I break letters apart into new, interesting forms and also b.) Is it possible to obscure these already imbued symbols so much that they ‘lose’ their meaning? The letterforms in RAVEL run the gamut from being clear & legible to fractured, to finally some forms completely disintegrating into their environments.
According to Merriam-Webster, a contronym is a word having two meanings that contradict one another, so finding the word RAVEL was perfect for bringing all these ideas together in ‘collection’ form. Ravel means both to tangle and to untangle, which is a wonderful way to think about these visual shapes in space.

All ornaments are one-of-a-kind, 2025.