walking the same steps again xxii

Ethan Caflisch’s Walking the Same Steps Again series transforms quilted textiles into meditations on routine, relationships, and place. Through pattern and repetition, these works explore the quiet rhythms of daily life—subtleties noticed, moments missed, and the gentle persistence of time. Each piece stitches together past and present, forming connections through material and memory. The act of quilting becomes a metaphor for intimacy and distance, where layers of fabric, seams, and textures echo the ebb and flow of relationships. Landscapes appear as both physical and emotional spaces, framed to exist between here and there, presence and absence. In these textile paintings, Caflisch embraces process and imperfection, revealing the beauty in what is revisited, reworked, and rediscovered. In Caflisch’s Words: this small series of textile paintings is looking at pairings, relationships, and landscape. pattern and repetition in this work a paramount. thinking about routine, times of day, subtleties known and missed.