When we created our ViewArt website in 1994, THE TAPESTRY OF HOPE became one of the first pieces of interactive literature online. The poem was composed for our 1993-94 NYC commissioned, multimedia installation, THE THREADS THAT BIND US - EARTH ELEGIES I. It was written as a collaboration that invited the museum viewer to be a participant. Those who chose to contribute were asked to add their hand by tying a thread onto a tapestry while giving pause to contemplate the future well being of the Earth.

Subsequently, in the spirit of enlarging our collaboration and the interactive nature of our work, we asked visitors to our Los Angeles DIALOGUES WITH THE DEITY - EARTH ELEGIES II solo show to create their own unique statements. The poem was broken up into thirty-two phrases that were then put onto magnetic metallic strips and placed randomly on a lectern. The results varied not only in their expressions but in their physical configurations as well. A sampling of these were documented as part of the evolving process of the installation.

In our 1998-99 installation, IN THE BEGINNING - EARTH ELEGIES III, part of the ELEMENTS exhibition at Frank Lloyd Wright's Barnsdall Art Park, the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, poems written - on site or submitted via the Internet - were printed out and placed within a book -- EVOLUTION: A TAPESTRY OF HOPE over the duration of this new media installation .