Trust the Process

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The Last weeek I found myself attending as many field trips as I could. I thoroughly enjoyed going to Pilot Knob state park with the Aquatic Ecology class. Finding the Sundew once again brought great joy to my heart, but a little bittersweet as this year there were very few of them present. The grounds were a bit more saturated and the lush greenery were teeming over the mounds that the sundew typically grow on. Additionally there was a difference in the make up of the water which could have also causes the difference in presence of sundew.

I finished up a few pieces and this included a very spur of the moment piece which I created within the last 72 hours of the residency. Sometimes my brain just works best when it’s not thinking and that was when the “Meeting of Migratory Butterflies” was born. Crocheting with my fingers instead of with hooks, and bringing together some tiny moving parts including pieces of a broken discoball, my great grandmother’s spools, needles, sliced mulberry wood cookies, and ink drawings of butterflies.

“Artists and scientists are both asking questions about the world, they’re just doing it in different ways”
Alex Braidwood
Director, Iowa Lakeside Lab Artists-in-Residence Program

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