About the Art:

This set of three weavings is a small part of a larger body of work, which is a reflection and dream of my queer adolescence. It is a reflection of myself, my hometown, and an imagined date. The dating event of younger years, nights of fried foods, and traveling festival rides was not perceived as a safe environment for a young queer person. 

These weavings grapple with the memory of lived experience and the dream of it being something more. I weave with a collection of photos that I’ve taken at the Annual Nut Club Fall Festival held in southern Indiana, altering them digitally to affect their colors, saturation, and composition. Photos are chosen to create a more complicated image through physical weaving.

The orientation of the printed photos are chosen before they are cut into warp and weft strips. Each piece is woven using weaving drafts, often going through multiple iterations before a final is chosen. It is through this process that I get to know each piece and can hear the narrative of a date night that never happened.