What are the limits of a human body? Is there a right or wrong collection of parts? When does a person become more or less than human, and who’s job is it to decide that? How can humanity be reclaimed when it has been taken from you? I hope to make work that reflects these questions in a way that’s healing, entertaining, and accessible. Many of my works are based on sci-fi style dreams and creative interpretations of my own identities and communities, including a long series of “queer monster” self portraits that explore the beauty in initially frightening and unfamiliar things.  

            Repeated spheres, curves, and swirls find their way into every project, from orb-like creatures built from crochet spirals to animal skin patterns of overlaid circles and sickle shapes. I am very attracted to softness, both in the materials I use and the shapes I form them into. I have an affinity for the tactile and choose materials that are not easily harmed while being handled, such as yarn, various thrifted or recycled fabrics, and felt, all in the hope that people will feel invited to interact with and touch the result.  By incorporating colder and less forgiving building supplies and found organic material into these mixed fiber practices I construct creatures and figures that blur the lines between human bodies, animal elements, plant life, and industrial objects. 

          Process dictates results in my practice, which has never put much stock in a first draft. As each material is added and each process completed the works take on new intention, allowing the form to guide the concept, with a basis in the original idea. This collection based method of making allows for mistakes to be exciting opportunities and for every project to be a chance to learn a new process or adapt an old one.