Artist Statement

As an interdisciplinary process-based artist, I create objects, drawings, weavings, and installations from a wide variety of materials that are informed by nature, memory/trauma, sound, tactility, and physical/metaphorical tension. My discipline in textiles melds with my experience in natural dyes, painting, and drawing to create works that are in constant dialogue with each other. I am drawn to meticulous, tactile techniques such as spinning my own fiber to incorporate into large, body-sized woven paintings that call to themes of cloaking, shielding, and an embodied experience of making. I am currently weaving, rug tufting, and drawing a multitude of objects that embrace a similar theme of metamorphosis, utilizing the imagery of the unfurling and wetness of new moth and butterfly wings. A variety of scientific, logical methods inform my learning of new mediums through which to express these in-depth concepts.