ARTIST STATEMENT
Revised Febuary 2024
I make to tell stories. My primary motivation in my artmaking process is the preservation of stories, memories, and moments. As a fiber artist, my methodologies tend toward handweaving, quilting, hand spinning, and knitting. I am deeply interested in the ability of these processes to hold memory and to act as an archive. The incremental, processed-based nature of these mediums allow them to become a record of the period of time in which they were made. I often leverage this property to create objects that can tell a story beyond the surface or visual level. I think that a quilt block designed to represent a certain memory can, in a way, hold that memory and allow it to be physically interacted with. Relatedly, I think that weaving, and its unique incremental construction, allows it to act as a record of the events and interactions that occurred during its construction. Every heddle threaded, every pick of weft, every treadle pressed, are all inextricably linked to the weaver and the circumstances that they exist in at that exact moment. While this characteristic is universal, at some level, to all process-based works, I believe that there is something special about textiles. The ubiquity of cloth in our everyday lives provides a unique accessibility to the stories these objects hold. Every single piece of fabric you touch on a day-to-day basis has a story and through my practice, I aim to tell my own.