Textiles have long marked the passage of time and history, serving as both functional tools and cultural records. In the Andes, ancient textiles from the Incan Empire were richly detailed and encoded with complex data and numerical patterns representing cosmological beliefs, community structures, and rituals serving as cultural records for hundreds of years.

In West Africa, kente cloth records stories of community and leadership, with specific colors and designs representing important symbols and events. Meanwhile, during the Industrial Revolution, the rise of printed calico fabrics produced in India and sold in England reflected the era's embrace of mechanization and mass, global production. These examples represent the varied ways that people across time and space have used textiles to hold meaningful data, tell stories, and exchange information—yet always in relation to lived time rather than measured time.

Time Streams continues this tradition while questioning our relationship with temporal measurement altogether. As Jenny Odell observes in Saving Time, "Nor has the clock, even if it runs our days and lifetimes, ever completely conquered our psyches. Under the grid of the timetable, we each know many other varieties of time: the stretchy quality of waiting and desire, the way the present may suddenly feel marbled with childhood memory, the slow but sure procession of a pregnancy, or the time it takes to heal from injuries, physical or emotional." This textile embraces what we might call vertical time—those unmeasurable temporalities that unfold according to their own rhythm. The piece functions as a kind of temporal measuring device, but one that prioritizes experience over efficiency, marking time through the language of light and texture rather than hands and numbers.

The work's dynamic surface changes continuously, utilizing programmed sequences of light and texture to create an adaptive visual experience  of time.  Inspired by both modern and traditional patterns and created using domestic floor looms, the piece incorporates contemporary materials including fiber optics and LEDs to create data-driven light patterns and colors. Time Streams reflects the natural temporality we experience as humans on this planet subject to the earth’s movements, with woven and animated patterns that may shift in density or movement to represent concepts like growth, connection, or transformation—the kinds of time that cannot be captured by conventional timekeeping but are fundamental to human experience.

Drawing inspiration from the natural ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest, the artwork incorporates textures, patterns, and forms reminiscent of the region's flora, fauna, rivers, and streams. The interplay of light and materials mimics organic processes, highlighting how natural and technological systems might integrate when freed from the constraints of clock-time thinking. In Time Streams, the play of light through fiber, the patient accumulation of pattern, and the quiet transformation that happens when we stop measuring and start experiencing.