To Be Known
Intimacy, Memory and Love
This body of work explores love different formats of love shape our sense of being known and cared for. Through imagery weaving, screen-printing, tactile and found objects I will reimagine memories and moments into touchable archives. Each piece will have semblance of care, remembrance to form a visual language filled with tenderness and exploring how we hold and remember moments.
From Here to Home
Tufted Ottoman
Inspired by my shift from my Texas origins growing up into my evolution in my relationship and moving into marriage and new life changes.
The Work of Loving
Tufted Rug
Size: 25" x 21"
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.
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.
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.
