This series of improvised tapestries on sardine can looms was conceived and created in response to my experience living in Morocco, in the desert oasis region south of the High Atlas, with nomads, sheep and goats as neighbors. The discarded sardine cans I collected on my walks once held nourishment for the nomad shepherds that passed through the desert oasis I called home. After moving back to the United States, I transformed these rusty vessels into womb-like looms, portable expressions of the rich textile traditions and memories of different textures of living that I encountered during this time. Each piece is named after a village in the Ouarzazate province; these names begin and end with the letter T, indicating a feminine name in the Tamazight language. 

Nomadology for me is an approach to study and expression that embraces the meandering, transient and small. Adaptability and improvisation inform this ecology of being and making: to go slow, step lightly, look closely, weaving in the threads of experience, and honoring the beauty of what is found.