Statement

Artist Statement

My soft sculpture explores meaning in commonplace things. The techniques honor traditional sewing, but apply more broadly. I link sewing with conservative mores that preserved the skill through my grandparents and parents to me. But I also associate sewing with the 1970s feminist artists who used textiles to raise their consciousness. I do not ascribe to WASPish beliefs that came to me stuffed in the seams. Yet I need the soft, quiet, slow of sewing to raise my own consciousness. I make a new quilt more embracing. Everyday objects and innocuous places are the low stakes environments where I unpick these fraught, interlocked histories.