54” x 48” // 2023
Coastal Plain Threshold I and II commissioned by the Georgia World Congress Center Authority, Signia by Hilton convention center hotel, Atlanta, GA
62” x 44” // 2023
Cloth Fieldwork Harvest Roots Ferments
Exhibit of textiles at Harvest Roots Ferments in Birmingham, AL.
Spatial Dualities in Cloth Gadsden Museum of Art
Textile assemblages that explore the duality of near and distant vision, continuous variation and constantly modified distances between haptic and optic experiences.
coastal pine . woven lumen . field studies . sonoma . resilience . awakening . muktinath pilgrimage . westward expansion . terrain . yucatán . village green
86" x 85" // 2020
Textile assemblage inspired by land, vineyard cultivation, and weaving. Made with repurposed linen garments, cotton remnants, botanically dyed linen, cotton, silk, hemp, tercel fabric and cotton thread (hand dyed by Heidi Iverson in Sonoma County, CA), machine pieced and hand stitched.
71” x 42” // 2022
Muktinath Pilgrimage explores narratives about the nature of place, inspired by women’s sari garments, stretched out in linear patterns, drying on the ground and the 108 Temple water taps in the pilgrimage site of Muktinath, Nepal. Hand stitched repurposed linens, clothing and printed cotton.
60" x 41" // 2020
Textile assemblage inspired by saddlebags and traversing terrain. Made of repurposed linen garments, linen and cotton cloth and hand quilted with cotton thread.
36” x 48” // 2020
Commission inspired by the Montana landscape, hand pieced and quilted linen remnants.
36" x 48" // 2019-2020
Inspired by the diverse ecology of the Alabama gulf coastal plain , made primarily with Alabama grown cotton remnants generously provided by Red Land Cotton and commissioned by Studio Abode for eleven of the Alabama Gulf State Park cottages.
72” x 42” // 2018
Kantha is made primarily of repurposed clothing, a Kantha cloth jacket and silk/linen shirt with a hemp/linen grain sack. Accentuating the beauty of details such as Kantha hand stitching and repair found in the repurposed cloth inspired the composition.
35” x 68” // 2017
Kagbeni explores narratives about geography and the nature of place. It focuses on the physical landscape of the Kali Gandhi gorge, a trade route between India and Tibet, south of Kagbeni, Nepal. It is a place where spatial and geological oppositions of resilience and fragility dominate. The sensory experience of dust storms and migrant travel, etched in my memory, inform the piecing and hand stitching of repurposed linens, cloth, wool and printed cotton fabric.
