ABSTRACT
In these pages, I have associated images with words to reflect on the shifting fields I have shaped, sown, labored, and harvested. I have followed the paths I have taken across anthropology and art to make new things, not for innovation’s sake, but with the prospect of better coming to terms with the world as it is, and shaping what it might yet be. With this book, I invite others to extend and expand the movements I have made, to shift my designs to their questions. To work as I have, one need not collect wood or story slivers or sprinkle poppy dust on silk. The broad cloak of references I have worked with and sometimes traced on translucent organza is adjustable. So are the disciplinary and state lines that have marked my path, and the histories that have shaped my ways of being, working, making.
