I Will Arise .. .-- .. .-.. .-.. .- .-. .. ... .

13" x 15'. Mercerized cotton warp and weft. The warp and tabby wefts were dyed with plants from my yard over the course of the summer of 2022: horsetails, lichen, bracken, willow leaves, daisies, carrot tops, blackberry leaves and canes, japanese maple leaves, marigolds, Saint John's wort, hawthorn leaves and twigs, red cedar boughs, heather flowers. The pattern warp was dyed with indigo.

The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats.

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;

Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,

And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,

Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;

There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,

And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,

I hear it in the deep heart’s core.