I started this piece while trying to get pregnant. I decided to go back to MassArt (almost 20 years later) to take another weaving class from a teacher I had in college, Ann Wessman. She was the comforting mom figure I wanted to be around. I found myself wanting to be surrounded in fibers, a comforting nest. I wanted to make something from the raw material…wool. I wanted it to feel raw like what was going on inside me.

The only way I could achieve this effect was to spin my own yarn. So I taught myself to spin…knowing full well it wasn’t going to be pretty but that was also the beauty of it. It had been a number of years since TRIIIBE had made any new work and I wanted a reason to bring us all back together.

Cary loves fibers so I knew he would be in. I wanted to marry my worlds together…having my personal family life, my individual creative life, my collaborative life and my friends and family involved. This piece was a celebration of creating another human and the community of people that are already a part of his life before even meeting. –Kelly