Chrysalis Series: Lech Lecha (לֶךְ־לְךָ)

12/2025, Missoula, MT. Lech Lecha (לֶךְ־לְךָ) is the first work in my Chrysalis series—an opening, a threshold, a private instruction becoming visible. In Hebrew, Lech Lecha can be understood as “go forth / go to yourself”: a call not only to move, but to return to the truest part of who you are. Hand-felted and needle-sculpted from ethically sourced British Teeswater wool, the piece gathers into a soft, oval body—part womb, part nest, part cocoon—a chamber where becoming is allowed to be slow. Mounted on 32" × 32" × 1" clear polycarbonate with rare earth magnets, the organic felt form (approx. 24" × 30" × 1") appears to float; in that suspension, light and shadow become part of the work—an awakening moment poised between concealment and becoming.