Artist Statement

My artistic work exists within the framework of its materiality; primarily, that of fibers, text, and memory. Within my relationships to these materials, I am inspired by experiences and connections with ancestors, friends, pets, and the wide encompassing of what we might call family. 

Guided by reflection and intuition, I utilize materials that are deeply personal, such as journal entries, clothes handed down by family, and other artifacts from childhood. Through these artifacts, I connect to a variable, woven identity in myself and in my art. Using fiber processes such as knitting, sewing, quilting, and book-making, as well as writing across genres of poetry and memoir, I create objects that strike a space both whimsical and methodical.

In my current body of work, I am investigating visibility and obscurity. Both in content and in process, I am interested in how materials can play a role in what is revealed to an audience. This is often an exercise in releasing control over perfectionist structures and allowing the material I work with, as co-creator, to make creative decisions over what is seen or known. While not expressly ‘sloppy craft’, my work often leaves these material conversations and processes visible to the viewer, as draping, loose threads, and visible seams.

Both writing and fibers have the capacity to reveal and to obscure, to make known, to hold memory, to keep secrets. My practice explores these materials, playfully and inquisitively, such that I can co-create with them in an ongoing and reciprocal dialogue.