Combining floral photography, woven tapestry, thread, paint, and traditional handwork techniques, I make large-scale textile garden installations where flowers symbolize both the natural world and our humanity.
Using human-sized flowers as a point of connection, my work explores themes of mending, healing, and repair of people and planet.
These garden tapestries represent the blurred interconnectedness of our natural, social, political, and emotional environments - all fragile, weakened, in need of care & solutions for repair.
In my work, the labor-intensive process of stitching, painting, over-dyeing, appliqué, and patchwork on the tapestries is intended as a gesture of mending and symbolic of the empathetic action, difficult labor, and human choice needed to ensure the thriving, flourishing & care for all living beings within our collective, shared home.
Glimmer (Dusk and Shadow) Panels 1 & 2
Photographic Tapestry, Paint, Thread
77" x 120" x 2"
Char (In Memoriam, with deep regret)
Tapestry, flameproof wool, blackout fabric, paint, thread
93" x 77" x 24"
Glimmer (Twilight)
Photographic Tapestry, Paint, Thread
80" x 62" x 2"
Glimmer (Day) Panels 1 - 5
Photographic Tapestry, Paint, Thread
77" x 303" x 2"