For the past year, I have loved watching the reverse side of my embroideries become a tangled map of threads as the intricate images emerge on the front. Recently, my goal has been to allow some of the chaos to seep from the back of the linen onto the front. The result in this recent work-in-process in a denser, more scribbled image. Though a minor change, any small shift in the studio can feel heroic and experimental in the moment of making. (A few weeks from now, I will probably think it is too dense and too chaotic and shift back to an even tighter image.)