echo bales – k a t e l y t o w s l e y

2026 field quilt

2025 pigment triticum

2025 echo wheat

2025 echo bales

2025 seeking steps

2025 horizon line

2025 wheat choreo

2025 wheat heads

2025 wheatstack

2025 quilt square triptych

2025 quail eggs & cotton

2025 summer cicada & gifted flora

echo bales

echo weave, cotton, wool, poly-cotton blends, woven on 12-shaft floor loom, hanging on branch from family farm in Southeast Kansas

2025

yellow-forward face of echo bales (ii)

An echo weave is a woven structure of fractals. Through parallel threading, it is a pattern that is always moving away, yet also always returning to, itself.

blue-forward face of echo bales (ii)

blue-forward face of echo bales (ii) in dialogue with quilt square triptych and wheat heads in exhibition, in the field (Chicago, 2026)

echo bales (i) in dialogue with weaving, offering, artist book, wheatstack, and pigment triticum in exhibition, in the field (Chicago, 2026)

artist activating echo bales (i) as a book wrapping in performance, in the field

Photo credit: Christina Lee