About the work....

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Textiles play an incredible role in developing today's complex economic systems of lending, labor, global trade, and commodification. Textiles also represent who we are as a culture. The mundane domestic object such as a dish towel conveys specifically gendered social roles while lavish silks and velvets convey another. I utilize pattern as a metaphor in my work as I consider systems of production, consumption, and socialization. I often incorporate techniques such as weaving, spinning, dyeing, knitting, stitching, quilting, etc. into my object-based work as well as my social practice as a method of connection and co-creation.