Molly Haynes Liquescent

OCHI is pleased to present Liquescent, a body of new textile works by San Pedro, California-based artist Molly Haynes. Liquescent will be on view in the project gallery at OCHI, Idaho, located at 119 Lewis Street in Ketchum, from February 6 through March 20, 2026. Liquescent presents woven works that operate between nature and machine, structure and intuition. Using a manually powered floor loom, Molly Haynes constructs textile sculptures that move from near-translucent lattices to dense accumulations of fiber, anchoring to the wall while projecting into space. Informed by her experience designing for the interior textiles industry, Haynes brings a rigorous understanding of material and structure to her practice, even as she deliberately resists automation. Built row by row, the works remain responsive to the conditions of making, allowing shifts in tension, material, and pattern to soften and destabilize otherwise fixed systems. These deviations activate both surface and form, foregrounding the physical logic of construction and the presence of the hand. Rooted in both natural and industrial vocabularies, the works reference systems shaped by repetition, from the skeletal logic of desert flora to the vast surface of the sea, while retaining the spatial language of nets, scaffolding, and architectural supports. In Liquescent, Haynes often encases natural fibers and found materials within synthetic frameworks—monofilament, marine rope, and silk—to create hybrid structures that appear to flow and dissolve even as they assert mass and form. Tectonic and biomorphic forces converge, resulting in works that read less as images than as spatial propositions defined by a quiet, deliberate tension.