Dagny Rayn Chika is a fiber artist, writer, and educator from the Pacific Northwest. Grounded in the translationary space of ekphrasis, Chika explores the expansive relationship between text and textile.

Chika articulates the gridded and linear structures of writing and cloth as armatures through which to physicalize the felt experience, to operate as bones to stand on, a net to catch. Chika’s works are thus in reciprocal dialogue with found literature and poetry, as well as with their own writing. She subverts the written word’s typical function of clear, quick communication: instead, text is folded into seams, dissolved into fray, suspended between stitches, or looped back on itself in knitted structures. Writing thus becomes an embodied vehicle for slowness, coaxing the viewer to lean in, slow down, and develop their own intimate relationship with the language in front of them.