i spent the entire day in fruitful collaboration with my intern and studio assistant, alyssa. we worked hard for eight hours in an exhausting but exhilarating way. at one point, she had spent half an hour weaving foliage into a kind of mat, destined to be a still blog photo. it was very cool, and it will certainly make an appearance soon. but when she was done, she swept aside all of the unused elements, and we both agreed that the composition of what had been randomly swept aside was more interesting than the woven vegetative mat we had both envisioned from the start. “All that art school,”  she mourned, “and this is better than what I just made.”  “All that art school,”  I replied, “so that you could recognize that this is better than what you just made.”

cattail and prairie grass weaving

turtle lake, saint paul, minnesota