I am deeply enchanted by words and stories, both in content and as visual pattern.  I see a direct connection between language and weaving, between a woven work and a text.  This has led me to incorporate important pieces from some of my favorite texts into my own works: as these words are transcribed, pulled apart, then laid down again they become like subliminal enchantments, holding the beauty of the original message like a whisper within the woven cloth.

The pieces in this exhibition were created by handweaving cloth, painting the cloth, unweaving, then reweaving it to create two mirrored images from one.  This process developed from my fascination with the symbol of the inkblot, and its association with the mind. By altering my words and images through this extensive process of making/unmaking/mirroring, where tools, skill, and chance must collaborate, I literally open them up and pick them apart, to return them less defined.  There, where the edges blur and centers shift, our imaginations will meet at the story, in a space that is at once a meandering garden, a twisting labyrinth, and an endless library.

– Andrea Donnelly