My works are intuitively stitched, vibrantly colored, and geometrically abstracted textile works, pieced of cloth and thread. I am drawn to cloth for its material tactility, and responsiveness. I am interested in repurposing cloth for its history, abundance, and availability. I see it as a collaboration of sorts.  I am captivated with the process, the way in which the materials layer.  The way they feel as they are worked. The way the overlapping coats of colored cloth and thread mix and blend, transforming, and guiding the work, adding texture, contrast, and comfort with every stitch.

I love exploring and experimenting with the different ways to manipulate the cloth with the thread, putting together and cutting apart, constructing, and reconstructing, a cycle that for me symbolizes the happenstance of life.

My intention is to inspire others to look at the world around them more carefully, more mindfully, to see the extraordinary in the discarded, to notice the beauty in the mundane. And if they can’t see it, to show them it is possible to look inward and to see things in a new and different way.  It is possible to find and share the beauty you hold inside. How we see the world, and what we share shapes our lives, our relationships, our actions.  Let us notice and share the miracles of our every day, every stitch. . .

We are showered every day with gifts, but they are not meant for us to keep. Their life is in their movement, the inhale and exhale of our shared breath. Our work and our joy is to pass along the gift and to trust that what we put out into the universe will always come back. - Robin Wall Kimmerer *excerpt from ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’