Pieces
2022-2025

My work explores the tension between the flat surface of traditional painting and the dimensional reality of lived experience. I'm drawn to moments where materials escape their expected roles - where canvas becomes sculpture, where embroidery functions as drawing, where found objects carry the weight of memory and meaning.

What I'm exploring next: The intersection of collage, embroidery, and weaving with found objects. I'm particularly interested in how these techniques can create a visual vocabulary that speaks to both personal narrative and universal experience. Each cradle of yarn, each piece of fabric, each collected object becomes part of a larger conversation about materiality and meaning.

Currently, my practice is constrained by space - both for creation and storage. These works demand to hang, to breathe, to occupy three-dimensional space, yet I'm working within the limitations of domestic scale. The pieces resist traditional storage methods; their dimensional elements make them vulnerable when rolled or stacked. This tension between the work's physical needs and practical constraints has become part of the practice itself.

A typical working session might involve finally unfixing the yarn cradles I've been contemplating for months, adding that black felt background that's been calling to me, then reattaching and repositioning elements. This process of attachment, detachment, and reattachment mirrors how memory and meaning accumulate in our daily lives.

My materials come from multiple sources - the controlled (purchased yarns and canvas) and the found (twigs, fabric scraps, objects that cross my path). This mixing of the deliberate and the serendipitous creates work that feels both intentional and alive to possibility.

Each material carries its own symbolic weight. Wire warns of sharpness while inviting structural possibility. Soft yarns ask to be touched. Found objects bring their histories into new contexts. The combination of embroidery, weaving, and collage allows me to build a vocabulary that can express both the intimate scale of personal experience and broader themes of connection, containment, and release.