WS Journal 12 From Grass to Cord — Exploring Resonance with Plants

Focusing on the body is often an entry point to meditation.
With this in mind, I designed the workshop to naturally guide participants’ awareness toward their own bodies.
We began by hand-joining fibers into yarn, then moved into a weaving process in which the warp is tensioned at the waist, using the body itself rather than fixed tools.
This method allows for subtle fluctuations that cannot arise when the warp is rigidly fixed on a loom.
Because tension can be adjusted moment by moment, the finished cloth gains a depth and expression different from that of conventional looms.
Tools that allow such flexibility offer a wider range of expression, even if they appear less efficient.
Using these methods changes how one relates to the body, the material, and the act of making.
When combined with hand-joined ramie yarn—retaining the natural irregularity of the plant—the senses become more finely attuned to the life of the fiber plant and the environment in which it grew.
To me, meditation is a process of rooting deeply within, through which the boundary between self and world becomes thin and permeable.
This workshop was an opportunity to experience that sensation through physical engagement with materials—meeting the world, and life itself, through the body.