when your current project woven on an indigenous Taiwanese loom looks an awful lot like the mud flats on the cover of one of your favorite books of the summer about a Taiwanese immigrant family in Alaska 🌊🌊🇹🇼🇹🇼 . . . read my review of the book at paragonbook.art.blog/2019/09/03/in-observance-of-the-crooked-and-angular-the-language-of-longing-in-the-unpassing . . . #chiachialin #theunpassing #asianamericanliterature #atayal #weaving #writing #ikat https://www.instagram.com/p/B2GONJKlyVh/?igshid=1qke0mtd0n8f2

when your kitchen sink spontaneously erupts mysterious black goop and begins to pool in your apartment and you have to take your first sick day ever to wait for the plumber and then you decide to make #sashiko samples for your #boro workshop with @theshudio 🌱 . Come stitch and mend with me August 22nd! ➿✨➿✨➿ (at Pilsen, Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1Jj0z0lyHt/?igshid=ubn3pxzadazk

always love a new beginning ✨it's such sweet reward after the long process of prepping thread into skeins to dye then cooking them in a caldron in my kitchen then winding the skein into a cone to then unwind again into a warp 🌀also I really just need to get a yarn ball winder/swift . . . #kitchenstudio #atayalweaving #indigenous #weaving #泰雅 #台灣 #fiberart (at Pilsen, Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1FlF5cFq3e/?igshid=dfwmbo3mtce9

my temporary roomie, Frankie 🌱 https://www.instagram.com/p/B0xTKCrHpUe/?igshid=xer7lq2ajlu0

strolling through the dead 🌀also Hannah by the water ✨ (at Graceland Cemetery & Arboretum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0qcASXFRvK/?igshid=1jnma2nembarw

failed attempts at wonder https://www.instagram.com/p/B0pWCngFvMU/?igshid=1apu04u7rwx8t

Frankie is the best work companion ✨Also this book by #oceanvuong is absolutely captivating, heart-wrenching and beautiful 💧💧💧 https://www.instagram.com/p/B0m4Ud-FzNN/?igshid=ovw3195zkd6l

Last chance to see Support Structures tonight! Come to the closing reception organized by @pia_singh83 and @062official ✨✨✨ (at Zhou B Art Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz1LXqLFuKi/?igshid=1xfaubrt95io6

Hi friends! I'm teaching a Boro Mending workshop at @theshudio tomorrow evening 6-8pm. Would love to see you all there! ✨ DM for details or find them at @theshudio (at The Shudio) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzMBK3dlMqB/?igshid=duavjsuq1bl0

lavender plucked from hillegass 🌿Support Structures opens tonight 7-10pm ✨see you soon (at Zhou B Art Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/By_W1XPFlG4/?igshid=17s8882vxiwyz

Supporting Structures at @062official opening tomorrow from 7-10pm! Many thanks to the thoughtful and brilliant @pia_singh83 for curating this beautiful exhibition. . Very excited to show besides @gentleheadband @questionsfromthesoil @johntennison @mall_balls . gertrude, anne, mary, eileen, and robert, 2019. (at Zhou B Art Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/By8h4-5FSS9/?igshid=px15r54ta57f

miss having a weaving assistant ✨ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bya2AAHl9zY/?igshid=ds6n2698hue9

last perfect weekend with family and kitten and warmth in the kitchen 💞🍳🐈🍳💞 (at Pilsen, Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByNjpreF_Ed/?igshid=o0nd4ytww1ei

dead flowers to admire 🥀relishing morning light before scrambling off to work #weaving #reading (at Pilsen, Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByDGHV0Ho4G/?igshid=bizu05sfvk19

Spending the weekend with Bawrooooooooooo ✨💗🌱🌸🌱✨@betters @j0nnnn https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx74sZPFUJH/?igshid=54i35lcb0rl

saw/heard a beautiful and sensuous show of Mie Kongo's materially diverse arrangements paired with Norman W. Long's sound compositions ✨ (at Experimental Sound Studio) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxoYTxGFkWm/?igshid=mg1ys56yoyw4

Happy Mother's Day to my flora and fauna-loving mama! Teaching me always to love and respect the creatures I share this earth with 🌿💗🌿also this regal foto of Shermie that she sent ✨ (at Pays de la Loire, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxYsaS6luzz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=83ugwegfdzxx