Statement

Artist Statement

My soft sculpture honors traditional sewing, but applies broadly. I owe my sewing to my grandparents' conservative values that passed the skill on to me. But I also associate sewing with the 1970s feminist artists who used textiles to raise their consciousness, and in so doing, reoriented mine. I do not ascribe to WASPish beliefs that came to me stuffed in seams. Yet I need the soft, quiet, slow of sewing to raise my own consciousness. I make installations with soft sculpture that chart this change. Institutions and innocuous places are the low stakes environments where I unpick my fraught, interlocked histories.