Statement

My current body of work consists of mixed media. I utilize repetition and often incorporate unexpected materials, such as appropriated banal domestic objects, commodities of industry, fabric, and beeswax.

Ritualistic techniques and processes, like cutting, assembling, dipping in wax, and sewing, are implemented to create individual pieces that employ ordinary materials. Typically, I work on each part without a predetermined end form. As time passes and the individual units amass, larger assemblages take shape. Repetition and accumulation create power as the works metamorphosize into a substantial whole that marks time.

I find inspiration in women’s history, ritual, consumer materials/waste, and my environment. I feel that the meditative process of hand-stitching provides a sense of value and sacredness to the discarded and humble elements drawn from quotidian domiciliary. The gesture of the stitch often represents repair and healing. Thread binds parts together, hangs broken, creates boundaries, adds emphasis, or connects. Beeswax—a sacred substance historically embraced for its natural properties and cultural spiritual beliefs—is often incorporated into my work. I attempt to keep an openness between my mediums, processes, and the relationships between art and daily life, bridging between human-made and natural materials.

As a person who fills many roles—wife, mother, artist— my art is inherent with everyday monotonous routines. Traditional home and family-based rituals are reconsidered in a contemporary context. My desire is to invent the magical and mysterious by implementing the mundane and celebrating notions of domesticity.