Artist Statement

My work consists of interrelated strands. I regard my practice as both sculpture and collage, objects in space, each a whole assembled from disparate parts. The materials still bear traces of their former lives but are transformed and redeployed. The combinations of elements that occur are playfully rebellious.

I construct precarious, tabletop monuments and edifices from cut up resist drawings inspired by weaving and textile design. Along with my wall-hangings and wearable drapes they are informed by the language of abstraction, gesturing toward its history while encompassing democratizing DIY, craft, and female labor practices. Rather than building from a planned design, I respond to existing, discarded fragments and off-cuts, working provisionally so that each work is the collision of parts that coalesce in the moment.

Underlying my work are themes of provisionality and precarity. My drapes, initially inspired by Gees Bend quilts and Bauhaus textiles, are pieced together from cast-off, often moth-eaten, cashmere sweaters. Organic in contour and process, they are meditations on luxury, sensuality, visibility, utility, and survival.