2024 TAPESTRIES
Summer Bugs and the Rot (Nov 2024)
A 13 paneled tapestry inspired by a depressing summer, a poem, and ancient art. Click to see more!
Family Circle (Jan 2024) cotton dyed with rust, bleach, blood, mold, wine, avocado.
This is my favorite thing I made this year. Working with fabric is meaningful to me because fabric holds memory like a body does. In 2023, I learned about traditional methods of natural dye. At the start of 2024, I wanted to see how fabric would hold abuse. I let fabric fester in rotting food. I soaked cloth in blood. I burned fabric, bleached it, and wrapped it around rusty chains. The results were more beautiful than I expected.
This tapestry is a practice in empathy. It is easy to blame family for passing along pain, but at times that erases the things they have and continue to endure. It’s a reminder to myself that all this pain is connected. We share and shoulder it together. There are holes from those we’ve lost, but still there is completeness.
Stomach Myself (July 24).Reused cotton.
A fun experiment of poetry, drawing, and patchwork!
“ I ate two versions of myself who I couldn’t stand to look at but the ‘new me’ was too self-critical and now I’m at the bottom of my own stomach.”