"Caddis Fly" Elizabeth Weber

Elizabeth Weber, Little Rock, AR
Caddis Fly, 2026
Eco dyed, recycled fabric, thread, iron, seeds, bones, robe, wood, and beads
40 x 9 x 11”

Our essential need for clean drinking water unites us and all living things on a global scale.
Caddis flies can be found everywhere around the globe, except Antarctica, and are known for their aquatic larva and moth-like adult phases. They are crucial to food webs and are freshwater filters, serving as key bio-indicators of clean water, often building portable protective cases from silk, sand, and twigs.

They will use anything they find in their environment to create their protective cocoons. My piece, "Caddis Fly", highlights that. The piece itself is slow stitched using recycled fabric that I eco dyed using plants from my garden. I have added natural elements like driftwood, river stones, seed pods, and bones, as well as examples of environmental trash that could be found in our waterways, rusted bits of keys and barbed wire, and old rope.