While sheltering in COVID-induced isolation during spring 2020, I demonstrated to my students that weaving can happen anywhere and with anything by creating and documenting temporary installations throughout my home, using the obvious choices of fabric and yarn, but also things like spaghetti and toilet paper. Weaving—a process that hadn’t been a regular part of my own studio practice in twenty years—became both creatively fulfilling and pedagogically functional. In the time since, I have continued to reconsider weaving as research, process, and ephemeral installation, rather than as permanent product. I think about weaving as an experience, an experiment, and a new way to deeply understand the world around me.
Jeana Eve Klein 