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My work tells stories about place — an exploration of how architecture, politics, history, and aesthetics converge to shape place and identity. I create conceptually rigorous, craft-inspired and collaboration fueled works that unearth hidden histories within the American landscape. I’ve built an art practice line by line or “weft by weft,” pushing various traditions of hand-weaving off of the loom and away from the functional form of cloth and textile into multimedia woven sculptures, installations and functional furniture.
Conceptually, my work shines a light on people and places that have been overlooked, interrogates the politics of place, and advocates for awareness, with the goal of bringing visibility and connection in place of these voids – almost like an act of protest, my practice seeks to reclaim these narratives through site-specific sculptures and interventions.
Craft-inspired, my sculptures weave ancestral forms together with unexpected, often industrial materials in order to channel these lost histories into portals for reflection and reclamation. From creating woven baskets that lean more fantastical than functional, to reclaiming one of the world's most famous chairs, to weaving a thatched roof out of nylon nets and mylar – I find ways to re-center ancestral knowledge in the context of today with the materials of tomorrow.
Collaboration is essential to work that tell stories of place, therefore integral to my practice is creating work with a public component. These projects often meddle in municipal matters, engage participatory research, and create space for community collaborations, making the public active producers of the work. Because of this, I like to think of my work as social sculpture—anchored by physical objects and installations but deeply collaborative by design.