An older piece Mattes made as a kind of compositional study. “I was thinking about arranging these shapes and objects in a way that was almost creating camouflage, trying to align certain objects in ways that would get concealed, and hidden within each other. I was looking at a lot of I Spy books.” On her process: “With most of my weavings, I don’t really plan it out beforehand. As I weave one thing, I draw associations with that object to the next object, it’s a process of working upwards.”