Using second-hand textiles, old clothes, and scraps, I am inspired by moments and memories occurring every day in regular life.  These manifest as quilts, wall hangings, and prints, in natural and earth tones, neutrals and monotones, and traditional quilt blocks and stitching, all to tell stories of hope, overcoming grief, and radical community care.  

I live with high anxiety, and I work to create imagery to calm my mind and my heart. As a private person, I constantly challenge myself to get what’s in my mind onto the fabric, knowing full well the important role of the artist to fight back against the status quo, to share their story with the world. Asking questions of myself, such as how do I hold myself accountable, how do I take up space, how do I make space for others, how do I show up for others, how can I make rituals of a practice, I use quilts to answer these questions, and ask these same questions of others. My craft consists of hours of “handwork”, finding the steady, consistent rhythm of the thread and needle drawing me into the generations of quilters before me. 

 I am heavily influenced by the artists who are working to answer their own questions, including Bisa Butler, Zak Foster, The Gee’s Bend Quilters, Georgia O’Keeffe, Annie Albers, Sophie Taeber-Arp, Louise Bourgeois, quilts and quilters of the 19th Century, and the AIDS Names Quilt.