BIOSPHERE 2 IN TUCSON

Life, with the garden

Location: Outside of Tucson, Arizona, USA • • • Visit: April and May 2023

Here’s a taste of my particular flavor of crazy: A couple of weeks ago I received a travel grant to go to Tucson, Arizona, for a workshop in May. My first thoughts? I need to knit something desert-appropriate! To wear at the workshop! And photograph in the desert!

I came up with two t-shirt design ideas, to be made in linen yarn. And now I’ve been on Easter break (yes, I took some days off, because, life got a bit crazy and I needed a moment to breathe), spending it hiking on the mountain ridges around Bergen, drinking tea and knitting my desert outfit with a view.

This Easter, I’ve felt at odds with the passing of time. It often frustrates me, the things we need to do again and again. The relentlessness of the everyday. How I can feel so pleased with myself, when I’ve managed to eat breakfast, or washed the dishes, or showered, or gone to sleep – only to have to do it again the next day.

Mostly, it’s OK. I’m an adult, I’ve gotten used to it. But sometimes, itching. This Easter, I’ve felt like a child, wanting to stomp my feet and scream at it all.

When, what I really want to do, is to marvel at the extra ordinariness. Stop, lose time.

For example in the shades of my plant dyed heddle weave.

ON GARDEN