Description

My work combines the disciplines of contemporary fiber, site-specific installation, and new media. Layering accumulations of handmade textiles and textures, I pair traditional processes such as crochet, immersion dyeing, and surface embellishment with layered video and projection, creating immersive scenarios that viewers can visually or physically inhabit. My practice incorporates textiles and decorative objects that mimic natural forms and hold untold stories of care. I archive, dissect, and recontextualize these items in what I see as a collaboration with the maker, often deceased and unknown. My process of making teases through constructs of beauty and vitality - a romantic, idealized vision of untamed nature that contrasts with the fraught and destructive relationship humans have with our home planet. I am drawn to nuanced hues found in nature, recreating them in the dye bath to communicate a sense of growth, verdancy, and inevitable change. Through my work, I imagine a reclamation of the Earth by wildness - a less human-centered future where we learn to live and thrive in symbiosis with the natural world.