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"To confine an escape"
37 1/2"x 29"x 13 1/2"
shredded clothing found inside of a punching bag, cotton thread, wire, and
metal curtain rods.
2020

To confine an escape (close up)

"To confine an escape"
37 1/2"x 29"x 13 1/2"
shredded clothing found inside of a punching bag, cotton thread, wire, and
metal curtain rods.
2020

"Night Aggregations"
stretched cotton linen, yarn, string, plastic, and unfired stoneware
48"x 48"x 9 1/2"
2019

Various colorful, but desaturated linear fiber lines are stretched and strung on frame loom and then placed in relationship to a large tangled mass. Each fiber line is in waiting either to be turned into a bundle or untangled into a line, which direction they undergo is unclear. This work came from this idea of caring for something so much that it becomes over cared for and then becomes burdensome.

Night Aggregations (close up)

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Another Time, Once More
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Buried Lines
cotton stretched linen, clay slip, graphite, concrete
31/2" x 3" x 2"
2019

"Buried Lines"

This piece is acting as a window blind system would for a domestic space. However, the blinds in this system do not open to the outside world. Instead, they are veiling a portion of the wall. Dipping cotton linen bandages in materials that are from earth, I’m burying them in materials that are normally walked on outside and using them as you would use a piece of cloth to cover a window after a traumatic event.

Buried Lines (close up)

Buried Lines (close up)

Uprooted

Uprooted (close up)

Upheaving Roots
various discarded fibers, wood, and wire
5'x 2'x 17"
2019

Upheaving roots (close up)

"Ironing in Imperfections"
deconstructed paper casted ironing boards made from cotton gauze, and shredded clothing that was found from the inside of a punching bag, gold thread, natural debris, fake sinew, and adhesive.
46"x 50"x 1"
2019

In this work, I am allowing what has been imbedded into the material to come through in order to become a highlighted imperfection. Deconstructing cotton casted ironing boards
allows me to use the torn pieces to work abstractly. Cotton is used to cover the body and now I am using it to map out imperfections in the material. There are traces of where the cotton remembered the metal mesh from the ironing board, along with where shredded clothing was imbedded and now torn and exposed on the cotton gauze.

Ironing in Imperfections (close up)

“Tattered and Torn”
shredded clothing found inside of a punching bag, thread, worn bedsheets, bathroom curtain, and wood
70” x 28”x 8 1/2”
2020

Ann Hamilton once wrote, “Cloth is the body’s first architecture; it protects, conceals, and reveals; it carries our weight, swaddles us at birth and covers us in sleep and in death.” Like Hamilton’s quote on cloth, my intent for this work is to express this urgent human need to find shelter and protection.

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Tattered and Torn (close up)

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