Mattes collects busts like this one she found at a yard sale. “I have a fascination with sculptural heads, even though I don’t really work figuratively. I haven’t figured out why, but I really like having that head in my studio.” To the right is one of her first large-scale tapestries. Larger pieces are “a little more difficult to control,” she says, “but I wanted to go bigger. There’s this aspect of looking at the pieces and getting lost in chaotic situations. I thought that would make sense to see on a larger scale.”