Ellie Dale Anderson is a fiber artist born and raised in Michigan. With ecological relationships in mind they ruminate on natural cycles, grief, and interconnection. Through familial traditions, memories, and scientific findings they work to explore the ever vast relationship we hold with the natural world. In the process of making they reflect on stillness, gesture, and the act of mending.

Detritus, bits of infrastructure, their grandmother’s quilt scraps, and found fabric are reconfigured into the woven form, accumulating into an organic oval shape. They see this shape as a possible cell, a womb, a seed pod, or a portal to a new world. Through the combination of bio plastics and metal works the weavings are stretched, re-building the structure of the loom into the final works. The weavings are a membrane, an in between space to imagine.