This writing explores a particular kind of architectural textiles that I have been making for several years. The fabrics described here have immersive and reflexive qualities. Reflex is a response that suggests the textile being touched touches back.
Immersion goes beyond the familiar sense of being clothed and surrounded by a fabric.
Here the term implies animated space expanding and dissolving boundaries. In these fabrics, boundaries of our selves body and psyche are questioned. The hand of fabric the particular interaction of nap, bias and weave that combines to give every fabric a specific quality of movement and interaction when it is handled is often referred to in descriptive reviews of textile art. We know that handling textile has a particular link to human emotion. There are poignant implications in the way textile flexes and moves with us.