Make Room is proud to present Sarah Rosalena’s exhibition layer by layer: bringing together a new body of handwoven works that shift and collapse spatial dimensionality between landscape and atmosphere.
Works begin with natural materials, including pine needles that are treated with natural dyes such as indigo before being incorporated into the weaving process. These organic elements move through digitally generated patterns and multi-layer structures, introducing irregularity, resistance, and disruption into otherwise flat calculated systems. Elemental materials, such as pine needles, hold time and energy within them, like the tree. As the woven layers interact, openings, shadows, and dimensional shifts emerge across the surface that exchange energy and memory, such as the tree.
Rosalena intentionally collapses the distance between weaving and mapping: the woven surface becomes both image and object, both representation and terrain. Her interdisciplinary practice moves fluidly between basketry, digital technology, natural dye processes, and handweaving to consider how land is understood, recorded, and transformed. In layer by layer, material itself becomes a way of rethinking the landscape—not as something fixed or extractable, but as a layered complex ecological system, living in continual change.
Opening Reception:
Saturday, May 16, 6 - 9pm
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm