about
I am an artist and textile designer working within the contexts of fashion, critical and speculative design, installation, image, and text. The essential elements of my practice are research, imagination, the knitted form, and waste materials. Through writing and making, I investigate textiles and materials as vessels for speculating future realities, as sites of performance and storytelling, and as inherent linkages across time and between human-centric and natural worlds.
My practice is fundamentally about the revaluation of substances – both material and immaterial – deemed as ‘waste’. Late-stage capitalism prioritizes the new, and has spawned a globalized culture of technological obsolescence that has led to mass accumulations of unwanted materials. Focusing specifically on electronic waste and the digital traces of remainder, I use these materials to fabricate realities through wearable and spatial interventions that are situated in time beyond the Anthropocene. By imagining future worlds, I seek to view present systems through a critical lens while offering questions about future systems.
I am inspired conceptually by the American Transcendentalist movement, post-humanism, performance art, technological obsolescence, domestic spaces, and speculative design. My aesthetic language draws from Brutalism, eclecticism, disparate juxtapositions between texture, color, and materials, humor, and designed domestic spaces. I have a strong propensity for dead things.
Through my art and design practice, I am dedicated to bringing awareness to the ravages of capitalism at a material level, and the disastrous effects of climate change as we collectively experience and reinforce them in the Anthropocene. By connecting more intimately with material, I believe we can begin to forge compassionate and restorative connections amongst ourselves and with the earth.
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