Please join us Thursday, November 6 from 5-8p in The Apothecary for the opening of Small Reverences, a solo exhibition by Calley E. Morrison.

This collection of works is offered as flags for small reverences. Each piece is a symbol of a moment, of sitting at the loom in quiet ceremony, of mixing weld yellow with indigo blue in gentle experimentation, of contemplating composition along the warp. The textile becomes a flag, a tiny monument to the acts of weaving, dyeing, and becoming.

Within each textile is held both the joy of what was achieved and the sorrow for what was lost, what might have been, had different choices been made.

Calley E Morrison

Calley is a weaver, textile artist, cloth-tinkerer, and natural-dyer. She started weaving in 2015 and currently works on a multi-harness floor loom out of her studio in Ballard. On the loom, her practice centers around exploring optical mixing and composition through traditional overshot motifs and naturally-dyed warps. Off the loom, she incorporates cutting and folding and stitching the textiles into new shapes and forms. Through a combination of wall hangings, framed fragments, and the cloth pal series, she strives to share a depiction of her process and experimentation.

Visit her website to view more of her work.

photo credit: Meg Moon