Today is a full studio-immersion kind of day. I’m at my sewing machine creating a new series of material studies inspired by rhizomes—those underground networks that grow sideways, split, reconnect, and connect to everything. Each piece takes me about 90 minutes to make, and I need 15 of them, so the whole day becomes its own kind of rhizomatic process: repetition and branching. It’s tedious, meditative, and weirdly serotonin inducing. There’s something satisfying about building a materials from