Drawn to the layered histories of place, I researched Slabtown and uncovered stories that shaped the community. Native Americans once lived here, creating and selling traditional baskets. Chinese immigrants later cultivated vegetables on less desirable land, sustaining themselves and their neighbors. I imagine these labors intersecting—harvests carried in Native-made baskets. At one time, nine creeks and rivers flowed through the area before being buried underground. In more recent history, the Chapman School chimney became a seasonal home for migrating Vaux’s Swifts. Traces Woven honors these intertwined human and natural histories through suspended, basket-like forms, leaves, and bird- and wave-like elements.