Rachel Ehlin-Smith is a fiber artist and weaver whose sculptural work is rooted in material storytelling, play, and a deep relationship to the natural world. Working with silk, alpaca, horsehair, cotton, preserved plants, crystals, and foraged materials, she creates woven objects that explore memory, impermanence, domestic ritual, folk magic, and transformation.

Her practice is shaped by an attraction to materials that visibly hold time: dried flowers, crunchy leaves, shedding hair, stones, seed pods, and crystallized surfaces. Growing up in New England, she became attuned to the beauty of seasonal decay, a sensibility that continues to guide her work. Drawing from folk magic and the symbolic lives of everyday materials, Ehlin-Smith transforms natural and domestic forms into objects that feel intimate, ceremonial, and alive. Rather than trying to preserve materials in a fixed state, she is interested in objects that may shift, shed, sparkle, fade, or change over time. Each piece invites viewers to pause with the fleeting, tactile beauty of the natural world.