My textile paintings and sculptural installations intertwine storytelling with textile traditions and gendered histories. Layering pattern, imagery, and text on clear vinyl, I stitch them together with a barbed red line that acts as both a seam and a mark of resistance. This body of work brings forward stories and statements that illuminate and challenge the larger realities women face today.
Inspired by the folk song “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”, this piece connects to my ongoing use of flowers as symbols of care, labor, and loss. The work reflects on humanity’s pull toward love and war, while questioning how easily both flowers and human lives are overlooked or sacrificed.
Inspired by the folk song “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”, this piece connects to my ongoing use of flowers as symbols of care, labor, and loss. The work reflects on humanity’s pull toward love and war, while questioning how easily both flowers and human lives are overlooked or sacrificed.
In my desire to make women’s issues visible, I use the text from Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s oral argument asserting that discrimination on the basis of sex violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Inspired by the folk song “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”, this piece connects to my ongoing use of flowers as symbols of care, labor, and loss. The work reflects on humanity’s pull toward love and war, while questioning how easily both flowers and human lives are overlooked or sacrificed.