Our group, Cloth in Common, consists of fiber artists from around the world, so there is an enormous amount of space between our members. Several of us have never met in person. We meet from our own homes through the wonders of technology. While we are not a chatty group,

After my last submission, I was ready to pivot to a more positive subject, yet I found many of my immediate associations with the “space in between” were tinged with negativity or anxiety. There is the daily act of going to bed every night carrying the weight of the insane

In everyday language, we often tend to think of words in binary terms, assigning them positive or negative connotations according to the nuances they carry. Thus, “connection” may naturally suggest something positive, while “disconnection” may evoke something negative. That is why I found Martha’s idea of exploring connection through disconnection