Branching

2025

Floor Loom weaving

Rafia, Copper wire, wood twigs, switchgrass, cotton yarn

Branching explores organic growth, divergence, and the ways forms evolve through tension and expansion. Inspired by natural systems such as trees, roots, river deltas, and veins, the piece reflects patterns of movement that are both structured and fluid.

Branching’ is part of my ongoing exploration of material systems, structure, and growth. Created with 1080 threads, the work became an intensive study of repetition, tension, and accumulation. I combined wire and raffia to investigate the relationship between contrasting materials, raffia as a natural, soft, and tactile fiber, and wire as an industrial, rigid, and structural element.

Bringing them together allowed me to explore how softness can coexist with firmness and how that combination can visually and physically represent growth, splitting, and expansion.

Visually, the piece draws from the desert landscape of Qatar, its shifting dunes, cracked surfaces, and winding pathways shaped by wind and time. These landscapes informed the branching forms and layered textures within the work. Through this piece, I think about growth as something non-linear: adaptive, expansive, and constantly in the process of becoming.