128” x 24”
2022
Jacquard Woven Perle Cotton Yarn, Hand Dyed Organza, Beads, Cup Chain
Aquarium kept me busy for around 3 months. This piece is made up of a Jacquard woven image, five yards of organza dyed with the Itajime shibori technique and was finally embellished with beads trailing around and outside of the figure. I was looking at how I felt, confined within my own aquarium becoming a figure watched. An effigy of my own image using tedious small processes like stitching beads into the weaving and painting the figure with dyes. This piece is modeled after Baroque portraits of Kings and Queens as well as figures in Classicism. Larger than life looking down at the viewer yet, the body is distorted and doubled over itself. The hand pose is modeled after the poses of Christ and different saints holding their fingers in certain ways as blessings. Small crosses and metal pieces engraved with Christ and Mary are peppered throughout. I am achieving a Sainthood that I myself will never have.
14” x 24.5”
2025
Jacquard Woven Tencel and Perle Cotton Yarn, Textile Paints, Glass Beads, Cup Chain
Vulnerability made My Baby, as I age I am more and more at the bottom of an ocean. My woven figure looks out from a submarine porthole into an ocean of dreamlike quiet. The beaded forms cross into her vignette as reality abstracts itself. Consideration was taken to every aspect of this work: creation of the file, painting of the figure and time intensive embellishment. Every night for at least two weeks I hid in a classroom beading the fish and other forms. This process was hours long breaking into a meditative trance. The figure itself has hardly if any beadwork, as the forms break into the ocean we enter this glassy world.
24.5” x 13.5”
2025
Jacquard Woven Synthetic and Tencel Yarn, Sequins, Beads, Textile Paints, Shibori Dyed Organza
Growing up my dad would always have me watch shows about aliens with him. He would talk about these beings like they were in our back yard. I began having nightmares about being taken away and experimented on by aliens throughout most of my childhood. I would not sleep in my own bed, took showers with my back flat against the wall and once I did sleep in my own room I could only look up a few times while brushing my teeth or I feared the alien hiding in my shadow would appear before me in the mirror. This all culminated in a sleep paralysis episode that I did truly believe was an alien abduction for at least a few months.
Crash Invasion is a show of all the paranoia, the miasma of worry over the next day possibly being the day “they” get to me. I wove this piece on the TC2 with a shiny dark red weft yarn to create more of a difference in texture. To add more texture and more of this paranoid thought cloud I added beading, sequins, and added shibori dyed organza to create more form around the figure.
109” x 34.5”
2022
Hand Dyed Tencel
Drafted by me this weaving consists of hand dyed tencel in the warp and weft as I dyed 18 different skeins to create the most subtle gradation in the weft. Echo Forms was woven on a 16 harness AVL loom and the first pattern I had made that I wove as well. This piece really challenged my technical skill threading on a 16 harness loom for the first time on a much larger scale than a small sample. The process of weaving it was finicky and very particular the loom not wanting to open its’ shed up enough gave me quite a bit of grief. This gave me much needed experience learning how to problem solve and work through issues on an AVL loom. Echo Forms taught me the patience I need to work on complex weaving.
68.5” x 27”
2025
Jacquard Woven Perle Cotton and Tencel Yarn, Dye, Beads
Sorry It’s a Fake Fantasy was a revisiting of my ideas behind Aquarium. Rather than being in conversation with the viewer this work is in conversation with the two selves I felt fighting the other at the time. I wove this following my gap year and the ending of my six year relationship.
My identity was splitting between my personal and student life feeling out of place in both.
The file for this work was structured with twills creating clear imagery of the figure. Following the weaving of these forms I took a very watercolor approach to applying the pigments. While painting my personal life came through the work as I sobbed over this piece angry, frustrated and scared of the future. Adding pockets of beads as little stars to the cluttered sky.