"Carnations are blooming. Sunflowers will bloom soon. Cosmos is in bloom. Dahlias are blooming. Coreopsis never stops blooming. Hot season flowers are happy.

Until recently, I had never understood a strategy in Audre Lorde’s poetry: she will write about the most devastating, ugly things, and then mention flowers.

Now, I get it.

When our worlds are unkind, we can turn to the generosity of flowers. The beauty they give unstintingly. And, perhaps, their generosity can return to us a sense of how we might inhabit the world, with unstinting generosity."

"For me, weaving data, stories or just patterns, is about creating tangible representations of intangible layers. In my work, those designs are created based on the analysis of stories, but mostly about the context around the words. The rhythm, breath, pauses, are things you can’t quantify or put a word on, but they add as much meaning as the words themselves to the stories. These aspects represent feelings, and that is the most human side of storytelling. That is also where people naturally connect. When you tell me a story, I connect with you because of how you made me feel. So creating patterns based on that, is assigning a form and a shape, a real one. It’s kind of saying, “Hey, this really exists,” and then translating it to a physical piece, like a weaving. Because you can touch it, it seems more real than a story you once uploaded to the cloud and you don’t even remember that it exists."