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.
Litigious, 2018, 23 screenprinted cotton cheesecloth panels and 1 jacquard-woven cotton panel, 42in x 60in each, 25ft long installed
Average Sexual Predator, 2018, Industrial jacquard-woven cotton and rayon, facemerged images of Donald Trump, Bill O'Reilly, Roger Ailes, Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Dr. Luke Gottwald, Harvey Weinstein, 48in x 72in
Woody and Dylan, 2017, 6 océ prints, jacquard-woven cotton, metal clothespins, nails, 80in x 72in
Solidarity, 2017, Hand-dyed, handwoven bamboo with thiox monoprint, 150in x 100in
Defendant Trump in Protest, 2016-2017, documentation of repeated protest performance using jacquard-woven cotton banner, steel rod, banner 42in x 60in
