My work explores how stories take shape within us and transcend time when shared. I'm interested in the individual experiences that illuminate broader human truths—how people have lived throughout history, what they've endured, and how these experiences connect us across generations.

For a decade, I worked primarily with silk, hand-dyeing and texturing cloth using Arashi Shibori—a method of pleating fabric around a pole while wrapping it with thread. These textured surfaces mimicked the movements on the Puget Sound, creating blankets, clothing, and scarves that carried the rhythm of local waters.

Recently, I've developed a series of beaded, kinetic sculptures that explore kinship and storytelling. In Story Circle (2024), each bead represents a moment and each circle represents a story constructed from those moments. The natural colors represent new growth and the plateau at sunrise—a hopeful self with energy to be renewed in the light. The achromatic tones represent the night sky, darkness, and loss—an introspective self that feels pain and sits in silence. In both states, we grow.

My aesthetic concerns center on finding visual balance within chaos and creating moments where art and viewer combine for impact. I'm drawn to intangible beauty experienced in deep, non-verbal ways that can quietly move something within us.

Through all mediums, I remain committed to work that honors the complexity of human experience while searching for the connections that bind us across time and circumstance.

Rynearson curated and exhibited in SHARING BLANKETS at the Wallowa Nez Perce Homeland with Celeste Whitewolf, Joe Feddersen, Paige Pettibon, and Roquin-Jon Quichocho Siongco.