I am an interdisciplinary artist who makes fiber art, works on paper, and conducts socially engaged projects with abandoned textiles. These works center on the themes of domestic labor, connection and care. Caregiving girds up our society and is based largely on the undervalued labor of women. Tending to one’s family and community is built on consistent, repetitive actions which provide comfort, ease suffering, and connect us with our fellow man.

Mending and stitching by hand parallel these tending actions. By using them, I join the emerging discourse on the unseen contributions of women and mothers to our social fabric and the contemporary art world. Through the reuse of found textiles and ritualistic processes, I communicate the transformative power of caregiving, specifically in the areas in which I have labored; childcare and care for the elderly.

As artist and mother, I am both archivist and field hand, creating studies in the accretion of domestic life and cataloging its labors. I disassemble, reconfigure, and alter abandoned textiles. Stratums of fiber in my sculptures reference sedimentary layers and the state of my laundry pile. I map the territory of my home-place with the visual language of topographic maps. I am also interested in the point at which motherhood becomes untenable; exploring the limitations of maternal labor, the baggage of inherited possessions and the societal pressures of caregiving. With these works, I join the growing ranks of a constellation of new artist-mothers giving voice to the maternal and domestic experience.

Recently, my socially engaged projects rely on the communal actions of mending together. With my work, I contribute to relevant and timely discussions reframing the value of care and connection to our neighbors and our possessions. I give voice and hold space for stories of repair, loss, and kinship.