Lindsay Heider Diamond: A Felt Sense

Using fiber as line, shape and form, A Felt Sense explores what it means to be human, translating emotional and lived experience into and onto surfaces that are visible, tangible, felt by our deeper senses, our innate knowing.

These textile-based paintings were created from memory, observation, and moments of quiet awareness. The material carries the gestures of drawing and painting while remaining distinctly fiber - loose, layered, and responsive. Wool’s tactile quality brings the viewer physically closer, inviting a slower, more embodied encounter with the work and subject matter.

The exhibition unfolds across four interconnected sections: A Sense of Being, A Sense of Death and Dying, A Sense of Place, and A Sense of Self. Together, they move through experiences of presence, relationship, and transition.

Wool is chosen as a metaphor and path to soften difficult experiences, longings, and memories while still holding emotional weight. Its warmth, color and fragility allow the work to carry tenderness, beauty and sometimes a sense of absence and mystery - especially for the people, places, moments, and emotions that are no longer present.