My work is informed by Ecofeminist philosophy, which links environmental degradation with historical subjection of women, and expands the liberation efforts of intersectional feminism to include the natural world. I’m specifically interested in our relationship to everyday materials and their potential to influence how we care for the natural world. My recent work centers around the passive acceptance of waste as a byproduct of modern living, and finding potential value in discarded materials. As a personal challenge, I tasked myself with utilizing my own accumulated scraps and excess supplies to create new work across a breadth of projects that demonstrate the potential value of “waste”.
The formal presentation of my work varies in form and media, including mixed-media relief, weaving, collage, and handmade apparel. I use collage as a touchstone process to join diverse and sometimes discordant materials into refined, abstract compositions. Recent waste-based projects include: sewing broken silk screens into clothing, weaving photograph prints into intricate collages, and piecing scrap fabric into a variety of apparel such as one-of-one corsets and quilted bags. The resulting collections of work are varied in media, but kindred in a visual language of pattern, texture, and organic imagery that transforms the mundane.