Description

My fiber-based practice examines the interplay between individual agency and collective experience through critical engagements with textile structures, both historical and personal. By manipulating woven and sewn textile forms that obscure the distinctions between found and manufactured materials, my work foregrounds tension, often through the strategic use of negative space. Synthesizing narratives rooted in the American South with broader discourses on globalized labor, my practice interrogates the complexities of interdependence, both real and imagined, between land, machines, people, and the objects they produce.

Reinterpreting traditional Southern Appalachian weaving patterns, my work merges narrative, sculpture, and contemporary motifs to explore the socio-political and cultural complexities of the American South. Through ambiguous woven compositions, I challenge binary constructs of southern labor and identity, blending historical reference, personal narrative, and speculative futures. Using both the TC2 digital loom and floor loom, I construct experimental textile structures that reflect on belonging and ontological precarity. Sculptural interventions, such as the interplay between taut and suspended cloth, serve as metaphors for systemic tensions and historical continuity. By modifying inherited patterns, my practice recontextualizes cultural symbols within a contemporary critical framework, inviting renewed conversations around labor, memory, and selfhood.