From My Child’s Hand
2024
Screenprint on linen
Pine frame
This series of screen prints investigates the symbolic resonance of the encounter between human and spider, two distinct yet parallel makers whose practices of weaving are framed as acts of narrative construction. The abstracted web motifs function as visual metaphors for cognitive and emotional patterning, networks of memory, connectivity, and inherited knowledge. Central to the imagery is a hand extended toward a descending spider, a moment not of confrontation but of mutual recognition. Here, the spider is not cast as an object of fear but as a figure of mirrored labor. By aligning species through shared gestures of creation, the prints suggest that weaving is a trans-species language: a material practice that encodes presence, intent, and continuity. The series thus foregrounds craft as a site of contact, where affective and aesthetic intelligence is exchanged across bodies, species, and time.