Text Us is a 30″ × 34″ mixed-media canvas by Jennifer Seas that continues the artist’s exploration of concealment, materiality, and the poetics of structure. Broad lines drawn with black oil stick create a loose loom-like grid across the surface, over a watery ultramarine underpainting. Along the short edge, a full run of horizontal lines (the weft) sets up a rhythmic structure. Vertical marks (the warp) extend only partially across the plane, as if the act of weaving has just begun—or been suspended mid-process.

Though there is no direct use of language in Text Us, its title and form gesture toward legibility. Derived from the Latin textus—“that which is woven”—the work references the historical kinship between text and textile. Here, meaning is not read so much as felt, partially built through process, and suspended in flux. Seas offers a surface that’s in the process of becoming—a scaffold for narrative, gesture, or thought that remains unfinished and open.