Statement

My sculptural installations and wall works connect to ideas of domestic space, memory, time, and the body through materiality. I identify found and personal domestic objects as poetic source materials that connect associations of gender, craft, and decoration as I draw on my personal relationship with the American South to explore the domestic space as a constructed narrative. Using time-intensive processes associated with labor and the domestic sphere such as hand sewing, washing, combing, and various fiber elements alongside drawing, metal working, and assemblage, I manipulate and reform mixed charged materials into uncanny echoes of what they once were in an investigation of the space in which they come from and the memory and history that they hold. My investigations are propelled by questions such as: How did these objects function to uphold traditional ideals within the home? How can I actively position myself in the work in relation to the place in which I and the source materials come from? And how can my artistic action offer a point of subversion or complication of the narrative in question?