Home Vessel 01 | Abigail Doan (2016)
The transition from season to season is not always easy for me. Possibly because seasons seem so short these days, or rather, are increasingly indistinguishable in terms of temperatures and evidence of drought and foliage shock. It makes me feel nostalgic in an unsettling way.
As autumn slowly seeps in, I am examining what it means to (re)occupy my home vessel – in part because of the need to have a foundation that our family operates from and also because I am delving into new (old) materials as a way to return to ideas that I had decades ago. I am gently letting go of working with fiber (cord, string, thread) and shifting the balance so that my vocabulary might become stronger and more focused.
Hover Craft 01 | Abigail Doan (2016)
A vessel feels like the right concept or sentiment to explore, i.e. a container, a ship, a hollow tube through which liquid or simply a new life force might flow. A raft for staying afloat. This is where you will now find me. Not the textile artist you once knew but the aggregator and documenter of stray (travel) materials and seasonal reflections.
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