Often what is hidden are individual importances within my pieces. My work reflects ideas surrounding my lived experience. Having experienced an abnormal amount of death I often think about mortality, and ideas surrounding health. Reflecting on the factors in life that reach in and affect our health, some simply being fate.  I look to the body as inspiration and as my palette. What can one do when these vessels that work for us, begin to work against us. 

 Having worked with textile materials as my main medium for the past three years my hand is increasingly important to my work. It’s expressive, creates flaws to work around and brings personality to the final product. Due to the nature of garment-making, planning is somewhat essential. I don’t like being restricted to a plan. However, I allow constraints to work with problem solving throughout the process and boundaries of a material within my vision of the outcome.