Artist Statement

(Current Interests)

-Craft history

-Gendered labor

-Queer objects

-Lesbian aesthetic

-Feminist readings of horror

-Depictions of violence to validate personal trauma

-Psychotherapy

-Neurological and physical effects of PTSD

-Accumulation

-Repetition

-Pattern

-Speculative fiction for social justice

-Luxury aesthetics

-Aesthetic markers of socioeconomic class

-Politics of mending and reuse

-Healing from trauma

-Craft as therapy

-Gender affirming garments

-Changing definitions of safety

-Safety as a Western construct

-Climate optimism

-Imagining new worlds

-Inherent violence of capitalism

-History of body modification

-Process-based and generative art