My work begins and ends with language. Using digital jacquard and hand weaving, screen printing, dye, and photography, I apply text as content and composition. Playing with the politics of visibility and erasure around sexual trauma and political action, I exploit the inherent properties of my materials and processes to achieve poetics through didacticism.
I merge distinctly textile processes and forms – complex multicloth handweaving structures, sections of floating warp, hand-dyeing techniques, stitchwork, and stenciled discharge monoprints – to create unsettling declarative works. Using legal texts and composed political declarations as primary source material and visual compositions, I strip the documents of the artifice of neutrality. Erasing, or fracturing text through the intervention of image or material, the pieces highlight the construction and fragility of the narratives we build.
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