The work I create is largely about the intimate happenings of the human experience; I continually navigate themes of personal identity, labor and healing through sewing, collaging, and other forms of craft.
My work explores why the hierarchy of art places a lower value on works and mediums deemed as queer, soft and feminine, in opposition to other mediums that have been long-established as gallery worthy, and challenges that pattern with sentiments of softness. Fiber art holds the maker’s self tenderly within it; each penetration of needle into fabric leaves behind the trace of a touch, a skin cell, and residue of threaded saliva. As such, my artwork remains an archive of my body and self, and the time, dedication and love that goes into a medium often viewed as lesser-than, legitimizing its existence and providing a power that disrupts the status quo of the art institution.
