becoming apple blanket

july 19.23 | cd: that corner of the homestead has some history. …i seem to remember that felt like a light and liminal place, safe for leaving unfinished stories. not knowing that someone would come back to them. but you have.

july 20.23 | kr: cutting up our linen bedsheets this morning… listening to birds. and background sounds of the kids playing. …sitting in the orchard, now evening, cutting perfectly good beautiful white linen. this fabric is not at all dead. something in it simply wanted to have every fiber touched…

Linen and cotton bedsheets, dyed with homegrown marigolds, washed in the Bitterroot River, woven under fruiting apple trees in the orchard at the Moon-Randolph Homestead in the North Hills of Missoula. (Becoming Apple title from an essay by Caitlin DeSilvey.) Approximately 104 x 94 inches. 2023. (Open AIR residency.)