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"Collective Mending: Weaving a Meadow"
Digital photograph
Drone photo credit: Laura K Reeder
2025
Julia Lines Wilson interlaces weaving, art, and landscape together to create spaces for inter-species connections across ecological, social, and urban systems. Her research focuses on how we might participate as co-creators of place while emphasizing site material as, simultaneously, living memory and design future. She won the Jardins de Métis International Garden Festival in Québec in 2024, received a NYSCA grant for a land art and landscape restoration project at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in 2025, and was named an LAF Olmsted Scholar in 2024. She holds a BFA in Fiber Art and Material Studies and an MLA in Landscape Architecture.
I am a process-driven, interdisciplinary artist whose practice interlaces weaving, sculpture, and landscape architecture to co-create spaces for inter-species connections. By using the language and framework of a craft like weaving at the landscape scale, I’m able to move across fields of study and scales. I consider landscape weaving to be a form of “visible mending:” it has become a philosophical and physical framework for my work. I propose mending not to fix and forget, but to move forward through careful acts of creation. Materials become, simultaneously, living memory and potential future. Repetitive, iterative, methodical labor measures time, builds knowledge, and becomes a proposal in how to live on this land. My practice accepts and celebrates transient, impermanent states, thinking through how we might move into the future while acknowledging and taking responsibility for both the thoughtful and thoughtless changes we make to the land.
"Collective Mending: Weaving a Meadow"
Digital photograph
Drone photo credit: Laura K Reeder
2025
Julia Lines Wilson interlaces weaving, art, and landscape together to create spaces for inter-species connections across ecological, social, and urban systems. Her research focuses on how we might participate as co-creators of place while emphasizing site material as, simultaneously, living memory and design future. She won the Jardins de Métis International Garden Festival in Québec in 2024, received a NYSCA grant for a land art and landscape restoration project at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in 2025, and was named an LAF Olmsted Scholar in 2024. She holds a BFA in Fiber Art and Material Studies and an MLA in Landscape Architecture.
I am a process-driven, interdisciplinary artist whose practice interlaces weaving, sculpture, and landscape architecture to co-create spaces for inter-species connections. By using the language and framework of a craft like weaving at the landscape scale, I’m able to move across fields of study and scales. I consider landscape weaving to be a form of “visible mending:” it has become a philosophical and physical framework for my work. I propose mending not to fix and forget, but to move forward through careful acts of creation. Materials become, simultaneously, living memory and potential future. Repetitive, iterative, methodical labor measures time, builds knowledge, and becomes a proposal in how to live on this land. My practice accepts and celebrates transient, impermanent states, thinking through how we might move into the future while acknowledging and taking responsibility for both the thoughtful and thoughtless changes we make to the land.
