Artist Statement
Combining floral photography, woven tapestry, thread, paint, and traditional handwork techniques, I make large-scale textile garden installations where flowers symbolize both the natural world and our humanity.
Using human-sized flowers as a point of connection, my work explores themes of mending, healing, and repair of people and planet.
These garden tapestries represent the blurred interconnectedness of our natural, social, political, and emotional environments – all fragile, weakened, in need of care & solutions for repair.
In my work, the labor-intensive process of stitching, painting, over-dyeing, appliqué, and patchwork on the tapestries is intended as a gesture of mending and symbolic of the empathetic action, difficult labor, and human choice needed to ensure the thriving, flourishing & care for all living beings within our collective, shared home.
Process
Since 2019, I’ve worked with woven tapestry as the predominant medium for my textile garden installations.
Beginning with photography and writing, my captured images and words are translated into tapestry, as the first steps in the process. In later stages, materials like thread, paint, wool, fabric, and dye are added as part of the handwork techniques that reflect my overarching concepts of mending, healing, and repair.
2024-2025
Current work & solo exhibition (Glimmer 2024) focuses on healing and integrates color therapy (chromotherapy), concepts from eco-healing, and clinical psychology to create garden environments that shift and evoke specific moods and atmospheres, supporting emotional health and promoting well-being.
Luminescent, vivid color permeates these floral tapestries as if nature is illuminated from within.
The Glimmer gardens invite us closer to nature, to connect with the human-scaled flowers, and see them as they gaze back at you - an invitation to come close to nature, slow down, be present and consider our place in community with them & each other.
Using a highly keyed color palette and human-scaled flowers, guests are led through the garden over a 24-hour period: DAWN, DAY, DUSK & NOCTURNE; to experience how different times of day with shifting light and color might also quietly transform their feelings, perception and emotional state.