Text Us is a 48 × 30 inch mixed-media painting by Jennifer Seas that deepens her ongoing investigation into materiality, structure, and the fluid boundaries of legibility. Broad black oil-stick lines form a loose, hand-drawn grid—evoking the scaffolding of a loom—suspended over a luminous, watery ultramarine blue 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. The color within this structure behaves like liquid thought, evoking immersion, floating, and a slow drift into meaning.

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. Meaning is felt more than read, built through process, and suspended in time.

Text Us offers a surface that is structured yet fluid, open-ended but also weighted with memory and longing. A compelling addition to any collection focused on conceptual abstraction, process-based art, or the poetics of visual language.