Through Thread

August 7, 2025

Sometimes, it's only in hindsight that we start to notice the shape of what we’ve been making. We might begin a project thinking it's a one-off experiment, a response to a passing idea, or simply an attempt to stay in motion. But over time, a pattern emerges. The more we create, the more we start to see that each piece doesn’t stand alone, it’s connected, quietly, to everything that came before it. Every work we make becomes another link in the chain, another piece of a puzzle we didn’t realize we were assembling.

There’s a thread that runs through it all. And the further we go, the more visible it becomes. It’s not always obvious at first, sometimes it appears as a recurring color palette, sometimes as a particular emotion we keep returning to, a question we can’t stop asking. Other times it hides behind the structure of the work, the rhythm of how we build or the way we strip things down. But it’s there. Constant. Waiting. Not as a neat, tidy narrative, but as a deeper coherence, something just beneath the surface that binds our work together.

As artists, we have to be willing to follow that thread. To pull on it, even when we’re not sure where it leads. That act of pulling isn’t about arriving at a destination or discovering some final truth, it’s about allowing the work to unravel what we thought we knew. It's about letting the process reveal not just what we're creating, but why we’re creating it. The unraveling, the not-knowing, is often where the real understanding begins, not only of our practice, but of ourselves.

When we trace that thread, through false starts, abandoned ideas, the work that never quite landed, we begin to see that nothing was wasted. Each piece, even the quiet or unfinished ones, holds a place in the larger conversation we’re having with ourselves through our art. This perspective shifts everything. We stop seeing our earlier works as separate experiments, and start recognizing them as steps in a larger rhythm. The chain becomes visible. The puzzle starts to take shape.

And so we keep going. Not because we’re chasing perfection or some grand artistic breakthrough, but because we know that what comes next will be built on what came before. Each new piece is both a continuation and a deepening. The thread stretches forward, and we follow, not always knowing what we’ll find, but trusting that the act of following is itself the point.