Artist Statement

I am friend to formalism, one liners, slips of the tongue, studio accidents, failed attempts, tools, bad jokes, thrift store finds, scrap materials, making and remaking and attention to attention. I believe we make objects like we make selves. We are shaped by the glut of things all around, the material world we care for, cull, collect, neglect, repair and sort. I am committed to the notion that making is a way of thinking, an intuitive way of being in the world and an attempt to grasp the provisional quality of meaning.

Abstraction and vernacular notions of arts-and-crafts are, for me, infinite fields of possibility. Pattern and decoration, often considered superfluous, are for me sustenance. Matching patterned fabrics with my grandmother was my entryway into painting and color systems. Loop loomed potholders, patches, doilies, doll dresses, knit socks, felt ornaments and lanyard, these domestic and childhood creations connect us to embodied knowing while complicating contemporary notions of comfort, cuteness, vulnerability and humor. Once rooted in repetitive hand processes (binding and folding, printing and pattern-making, patching and knotting) my practice has grown to include more conceptual explorations of repetition, time and context. Repetition is both gesture and jester. Flowers portend time. Witches heal.