Artist Statement

My work explores women’s relationships with nature, memory, identity, and transformation through textiles and hand stitch. I work with embroidery, cross-stitch, fabric collage, and reclaimed materials whose stains, seams, and wear carry evidence of earlier lives. These materials allow me to connect personal experience with the inherited stories held in objects made and handled by women.

Traditional handwork is both my visual language and part of my subject matter. Techniques once dismissed as “women’s work” become tools for examining the expectation placed on women, the intimacy of care, and the tension between constraint and freedom. Figures, flowers, birds, trees, and other natural forms recur as symbols of resilience, inner life, and the desire to grow beyond prescribed roles.

I want the work to feel tender but not passive. By pairing familiar domestic materials with images of women in states of becoming and communion, I create pieces that honor female experience while making room for complexity, grief, play, and hope. I hope viewers recognize something of their own stories and feel less alone.