This collection of 18 weavings was made during a 3-week residency at AZ West in Joshua Tree, California in May of 2024. Over the course of the residency, Eliza made one woven work per day as an exercise in iterative design.

The concept of “meditation on breath” is an execution of quantitative design in that there are 60 warp threads, representing 60 seconds per minute, and between 12 and 20 undulations of weft, representing the human average of breaths taken per minute. In this way, each work is an actualized rendering of the concept of breath. The process of weaving can be quite methodical and repetitive, thus inviting the weaver into a meditative state.

The work was on view from July 23 - August 10, 2024 at The Suite Gallery within the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. Here, the works are shown, from left to right, in the order in which they were woven.

Materials range from cotton, linen, rope, raffia, wool, twisted seagrass, tencel, and bamboo.