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To Be Known
Intimacy, Memory and Love
This body of work explores how various formats of love shape our sense of being known and what it means to be understood and cared for. I work to interlace processes and imagery to reflect on memories and how experiences build, fade, and return over time. I am interested in how memory is not fixed, but something that shifts and softens, held differently each time we revisit it. Repetition of labor is central to my process as the act of making becomes an act of care, one that is slow, attentive, and intentional. It reflects how I have come to understand love, not just in big moments, but within the quiet, repeated gestures that accumulate over time. Reimagining memories and moments as touchable archives.
From Here to Home
Tufted Ottoman
The labor of tufting is central to the work. I think of tufting as a metaphor for intimacy. Much like love, it is built through repeated action. Existing within where we rest and grow. From Here to Home, functions as both art and a designed object.
This ottoman reflects my transition from a Texas upbringing into a new stage of life and the shift that comes with marriage. The pointed star top references the Texas state quilt block, while the base references the wedding ring quilt, symbolizing union, continuity, and commitment.
The Work of Loving
Tufted Rug
Tufted textile made of dyed yarn from a second-hand store. Backing is adhered and hand stitched finishing.
Using tufting as a metaphor for intimacy. Seeing intimacy as an ongoing and repetitive labor. Love is repetitive and embodied through labor, it is often small acts that sustain a relationship not the large ones. The rug as a home good because love is something that you inhabit. This work is intended for wall display.
What We Hold
Linen Tactile Memory Book
What We Hold functions as a collection of voices, holding both individual insights and common understandings. Through these messages, it becomes a layered archive of care, where meaning is built through connection rather than a single narrative. Each page carries a sense of familiarity, revealing the presence of the person who contributed their handwritten notes.
Using multiple appliqué techniques, cherished memories and meaningful details are tenderly stitched into each page, honoring those who shared them. The book becomes a collaborative effort to preserve generations and offer a space for love to be returned to.
Layered Memories
Woven Tapestry
This woven piece layers together fragments of photographs of special family moments. These moments once vivid and saturated have been softened by time.
By weaving these sublimated images together images merge together into a general memory. A veil of lightly dyed lace drapes across the surface, obscuring and revealing in turn, much like the way nostalgia blurs what we remember. Through this layering, the work reflects on how my memories keeps us intertwined.
The Keepsake Suite
Handmade Paper Stationary Suite
Handcrafted wedding stationery suite. This stationery will be a tactile artifact that displays a transition from private intimacy to a combined declaration of love. Wedding stationery and invites are often among the first physical objects that showcase a couple. Each element will be handcrafted to emphasize material intimacy further. Wanting to explore how love is communicated through design decisions, textures, and any imperfections. Translating the notions of love and being known into a functional, design-forward framework relevant to post-graduation opportunities.
The stationery suite includes:
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Hand-made paper wedding invitations
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Custom envelope liners
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A hand-carved stamp used for the envelope front
Maiden/Married
Screen-Printed Diptych Tapestry
Maiden/Married explores how love reshapes identity while inherited bonds remain constant. Individuality is intricately layered and altered over time, often influenced by those we spend the most time with. Sisters share a name as children, and marriage alters that.
This dyptich is a memory of love and recognition, not necessarily of a loss but of a change. The work represents a younger me with my sister, sharing a maiden name, and then my growth into my married name.
Memory As a Vessel
Ceramic Bowls
Inspired by topographic maps. As representations of movement and memory. The contour lines remind me of hiking, traveling, and my grandpas time in geology and mapmaking. Each carved line is meant to mimic a topographic map. I wanted to keep the form clean and ideal for a mold, while still having personal meaning that works in a utilitarian context.
Tender House Collection
Pattern Collection
The Tender House Collection is primarily intended for interior applications. Such as wallpaper, bedding, and upholstery. The prints expand into home soft goods and lifestyle products, including scarves, journals, stationery items, packaging, tea towels, pillows, and other household accessories.
The collection translates personal memory into a common visual language of comfort, softness, and home. Multiple colorways are provided, each with palettes that reflect the emerging need for restorative interiors and the practice of slow decorating. Trends that overlap with the hand-made origins and tactile qualities present throughout the collection.
