artist statement

Thousands upon thousands of trivial moments that meant nothing and every significant experience captured on tape are replicated in memory. I explore the relationship between memory and malleable materials, drawing from my childhood and the colorful, kitschy visual culture that shaped my adolescence. These influences become tangled with personal history, blurring the boundaries between lived experience, imagination, and constructed narrative.

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Using labor-intensive processes such as quilting, crochet, sewing, painting, and assemblage, I transform fleeting moments into tactile objects that feel simultaneously intimate and uncanny. I am drawn to the tension between handmade labor and mass-produced imagery, recontextualizing photographs, paintings, and cultural references through slow, repetitive processes. Bright colors and playful forms act as “chewing gum for the eyes,” inviting viewers into nostalgic spaces before revealing deeper questions about identity and the reliability of recollection.

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I often work from my own archive, revisiting imagery from childhood and family history and translating it through new materials and processes. I duplicate, fragment, cut apart, stitch together, and recontextualize these images to explore how memory preserves moments while simultaneously distorting and rewriting them. A painting becomes a quilt; a photograph becomes a woven surface; a familiar figure is removed from one context and placed into another. These transformations mirror the way memories shift each time they are recalled. My work is an ongoing negotiation between holding onto the past and accepting that it can never remain unchanged.