Inside the library find my architecturally inspired artwork stitched from soft single-use plastic among the books. Outside the library, participate in a community wide weaving project We Are the Warp and Weft.

Weaving is one of the oldest crafts in human history – a language, a universal communication system, a process concerned with the shared, larger whole. For thousands of years, people gathered in one another's courtyards and houses to spin, sew, weave, and have fellowship. The ancient art was imbued with magic, and its vocabulary still lives in how we speak about the deep, intricate nature of life itself.

Now we bring weaving into our current moment – and weave with what is most abundantly, troublingly available to us: single-use plastic. Ubiquitous and largely unrecyclable, it is the material of our time whether we choose it or not.

During Earth Month and beyond, join me on the steps of Katonah Library to make a collective statement. Bring the soft single-use plastics from your home or workplace. Together we'll cut them into strips and weave them into a large, colorful community banner – making visible just how much of this material surrounds us, and weaving a shared vision of a better future.