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Jill Powers
paperjp@earthlink.net |
 I love working on the edge of innovation, mingling centuries old papermaking and basketry traditions. The meditative experience of working for long hours with my hands in repeated motions gives way to the exhilaration of watching the form gain its incredible strength during the drying and stitching process. | To Look at Anything To look at anything If you would know that thing you must look at it long: To look at this green and say I have seen spring in these woods, will not do, you must be the things you see You must be the dark snakes of stems and ferny plumes of leaves You must enter into the small silences between the leaves, You must take your time and touch the very peace they issue from. -J. Moffit |
In the summer of 2006 Jill raised 92 silkworms from tiny caterpillars to beautiful moths. It was an insightful time of watching, and observing the small details of daily life. Jill had the silkworms spin their cocoons inside her sculpture. Fiber sculpture and unusual cocoon necklaces came from this intriguing nature study.
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