As part of my thesis project while at Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, now called Jefferson University, I created a collection of jacquards and hand woven fabrics based on a road trip I took with a dear friend around the United States. We rode our bikes from Minneapolis to St. Louis along the Mississippi River and then drove South along the River to New Orleans. We made our way to San Francisco and LA with a week long stop to the Havasupi Indian reservation in the Grand Canyon. We enjoyed the expansive horizon and took amazing photos along the way. The photos and scenery I observed inspired this collection called "Fields and Grasses". My professor called the pieces simple and common which bothered me at the time, however after some years of life and experience, I love the simplicity of them.