Statement
I employ a broad definition of "textile" to expand a craftsperson’s ways of knowing into other mediums. Stitching, for example, becomes anything that is at once destructive and reparative. Folding, draping, and dyeing each have their own approach and imparted knowledge.
Weaving, and all its associated actions, especially dominates my practice and way of seeing the world. As a process and a structure, it allows the linearity of a thread to become the planar surface of cloth. Through the matrix of opposing tensions, a surface is formed—a medium, a boundary, an interface. I use opposing characteristics to weave/write; to express and to protect in the poetics of pattern.
Textiles are original mediums of story, coding, and identity-making. They are kept close - I intentionally speak in the intimacy associated with them.