Having grown up a girl in ballet and the Episcopal church, I investigate the ways that experience has since shaped my mind, my body, and its environment. I seek to reimagine the stories of the Bible, the prayers, and the hymns in order to process the complexities of patriarchy within the church. A crucifixion, the architecture of my childhood church reconstructed in fabric, reflections on personal relationships, and at times, an escape to another world. As a textile based artist, my intention is to link subjects of fabric with reflection, 2D with 3D, time with stillness, and internal with external. This is the drive of my creation while I delve into topics of relationships within Christianity, patriarchy, and escapism. 

I take inspiration from the materiality of fibers and their capacity to join the internal and personal to external environments. This relationship allows me to work intuitively, choosing colors, texture, imagery and composition based on my experience within Christian spaces and classical performance spaces. Because fabric carries such a textural experience, much of my practice involves hand work including the dyeing, piecing, applique, and embroidery processes, further linking the personal, internal, environment, and reflection.  Through my art I discover a new manifestation of body and soul that shifts and contorts with and within time, space, and memory.