Artist Statement

I build installations from materials we handle and rarely look at closely: cosmetic sponges, window screen, zippers, and cloth. I cut, stitch, fold, and repeat small units until they form surfaces that are difficult to name. I think of these environments as felt narratives. The materials carry traces of the hands that worked them, and the longer I spend with them, the more possibilities they acquire.

I use the sewing machine as a drawing tool. When I change the tension, the thread bunches, pulls, and leaves a record of what the machine was supposed to do. I return to those marks, layering printed fragments, handwriting, and seams until the surface begins to behave like a second skin. It can reveal something about an interior life while keeping much of it private.

I make the parts in the studio, but the work becomes fully itself on site. A wall, a doorway, or the path someone takes through a room changes how the parts relate to one another. I build through accumulation, and working with others introduces decisions and forms I could not have arrived at alone.

In Wearing the Inside Out, hospital gowns and scrubs gave me a form designed to standardize the body. Through workshops, textile printing, and performance, those familiar shapes began to carry traces of individual lives. I want my walls to walk. A surface that once belonged to a wall can be worn, carried, or rearranged. When it returns to the gallery, it brings the body with it.