My practice is rooted in the sensual materiality and inescapable politics of cloth. Hand dyeing, quilting, and beading transform silk and found fabrics into portals and permeable membranes that offer slantwise glimpses at cycles of fever, lust, purging, and metamorphosis. My quilts and sculptures blend steel, cast metals, reclaimed leather, and hand-dyed silk, and the forms call to mind alien creatures, internal organs, humanoid hybrids, egg sacs, and tropical creepers with tentacles outstretched.
My textiles and soft sculptures have an amphibious relationship to being and not-yet-being, past and future, the human and non-human. Time becomes slippery, thorns and tentacles penetrate the borders of the self, and the tunnels of alien insects perforate gallery walls. My works are shrines to systems carved out at the margins, to the chthonic gods of an alien earth.