Artist Statement

My work embodies an ethic of care, re-articulating the often invisible labor that holds families, and civilizations, together.  With lumpy surfaces, frayed edges and folds, I attend to the importance of touch. With checkerboard patterns, I reference weaving, the binary system of antiquity and emblem of women’s work. Supports, like the humans we love, are shaped in unique and specific ways and may extend into their surroundings, markers of interdependency.  And in places, a revelatory glimpse of the in-between or underneath — of a vibrancy of that which may be little noticed.  Offering an analogy between the making of art and the making of care, this work frames giving or taking care as activities that are powerful, richly creative and worthy of respect.