I spent some wonderful years teaching on Fogo Island during the 1980s. It was also the place where I started to create my own knitting patterns…the beginning of my textile journey. Once I had retired from teaching and was focusing full time on my art, I wanted the opportunity to return to Fogo Island and respond to that landscape with my knitting.
I spent most of August 2018 in Tilting, Fogo Island, Newfoundland & Labrador as part their artist in residency program. Unfortunately, on my very first day there, I got distracted by the landscape and scraped my leg badly . This certainly slowed down my hiking but my fingers still worked hard experimenting with different sculptural forms. The place drew me right back in, as if I had never left.
I played with knitting roots and creating a large knitted vessel encrusted with sand filled with smaller vessels with tags with the GPS for where the sand was collected around the community.
Note: See Knitting Our Roots as an example of work developed from this residency. 
