Lenore Tawney bought her first loom when she was 41, after working for years as an editor. Tawney used the warp (vertical) and weft (horizontal) fibers to make complex weavings from simple geometries: a grid, a circle, a square.

This work’s title comes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Reaper and the Flowers” (1839). In the poem, the phrase “fields of light” references the afterlife. Tawney was deeply interested in Zen Buddhism and believed art could channel spiritual themes.