I paint memories of plants, places or personal items such as clothing and fabrics. Rather than rely on actual documentation of those things, I use manipulated photographs, distorted photocopies and intuitive and interpreted memories. I am attracted to bold shapes, dissected compositions and patterns. The balance between organic and order is a broad theme across my work and informs both structural and subjective decisions. I employ a variety of techniques including painting, printmaking, collage, photography and sculptural manipulation of the encaustic medium to achieve each painting.
My sewing series is rooted in a push and pull, simultaneously embracing and disengaging with expectations of traditional roles and ideas. My grandmothers spent hours sewing, embroidering, crocheting, knitting and darning, and I parallel that hard work with my own. I create my own “fabric” in the series by using my plant archetypes to create repeating patterns and I use bits and pieces of sewing pattern paper. It’s my version of sewing with my own peculiar rules and standards.