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My posts for Week 4 of SciArt September 2025

Sep 28, 2025

More videopoems this week along with full embroidery pieces. You can see Weeks One: Lands, Two: Species, and Three: Water linked here and below.

Day 22: fellowship

Breathing is the one parasympathetic function we have some control over. In my many years of practising and teaching meditation I’ve realized breathing is a type of fellowship with our bodies: she breathed (2018)

An embroidery on a pale natural linen. There is a bone white diagram of a vocal apparatus, trachea, and bronchi/lungs. In between the branches of the bronchioles are small words embroidered in cursive in thin burgundy thread. They read: she breathed. Inhaled. exhaled. she knew. that breathing. was beauty. was the way. inside. to outside. when her breath. tightened. she found. ways. to soften. be still. to allow that. in. of the out. breath. to be. the. way through. she found the throughline. somehow. it. also found her. still. and breathing. deeply. each day was. new. each breath. a. different. path. always. through her. and. throughout her. such a. simple. thing, breath. such a journey. through. trees. and. branches. how the body knows. to still. itself. if we learn how. to. listen deeply.

Day 23: scouting

A big part of scouting is looking at details. This SciArt embroidery—eye poem (2016)— is of the venation of the eye and features a circular poem. It also fits with Migraine Awareness Week since my migraines are around my right eye.

An embroidery of the venations of the eye stitched in blues, greens, and purples on bone coloured cloth. In a circle outlining the eye is a poem that can be read starting on any word: behind her blue green eyes were fine lace webs so she could see purple mist opening.

Day 24: numbered

An excerpt from my videopoem ossa . ora (2015) featuring fifteen of my son’s baby teeth.

Day 25: tireless

My videopoem about the heart which beats tirelessly in our chests: susurrations (2008)

Day 26: forage

One of my hand paresthesia pieces—push, pull, & tingle (2018)—since we use our hands to forage. It also fits with Migraine Awareness Week since my migraines worsen the tingling in my hands.

An embroidery on deep purple linen. There is a purple outline of a feminine right hand from the side, palm up, fingers curled slightly inward. There are many tiny white French knots covering the fingertips and light blue, gold, and navy French knots on parts of the palm. There are fine filigree lines connecting many of the French knots and white strands of thread strung from each fingertip to an apex above the hand. There is a starburst floating above the palm in white and light blue.

Day 27: bounded

My current embroidery work-in-progress. I often make large pieces, and the hoop creates a boundary for me to focus on a particular section. I haven’t gotten to the SciArt part of this piece yet but it’s coming!

Lia’s fingers show a wooden embroidery hoop with a 4.5 by 5 inch trapezoid of black on black whipped backstitch that looks a bit like flames, but if you’ve been following this piece you’ll know it’s pubic hair. It’s definitely pubic hair. There’s a white chalk line on the upper edge showing about a centimetre in height to go, especially in the centre couple inches, and some chalk lines within the hairs. An hourglass-shaped needle minder that reads “this is taking forever” is attached to the cloth.

Day 28: harvest

A piece where I imagined the recurrent laryngeal nerve as a plant with its leaves unfurling in the throat. (I still need to wash and stretch this piece!)