Full Metal Quilt
2023, (enamel on steel, set in resin, 31×37”)
We still live in a time when much of women’s work and creative expression is undervalued. Why is quilt-making considered a craft rather than an art? Quilts carry family stories, embody generational knowledge, and demand extraordinary time, precision, and design. Full Metal Quilt comprises 196 squares of enamel-painted steel stitched together with brass thread. By merging quilting—a traditionally feminine practice—with metalwork—a traditionally masculine one—this piece invites reflection on how we define and value “craft” versus “art.” (FS)
Composite
2025, (fabric, 5 ft across). Composite invites you to imagine a being in formation, part human, part forest, a hybrid of plant and animal. It asks how we, as humans, connect and align with the vegetal world. We share cellular structures and circulatory systems, yet experience our environments in profoundly different ways. How might humans understand roots, or plants experience sight or touch? This work speculates on what such a being might become upon reaching maturity.
(available for display)
Dark Familiar
2024, (steel, 3 ft diameter). Dark Familiar recalls the era when women accused of witchcraft were believed to commune with animal “familiars.” In this work, a flock of such companions gathers beneath an umbrella-like form, hovering protectively above as an inversion of fear into guardianship.
(available for display)
Bait Ball
2023. (Steel and resin, 4 ft across). One of the great joys of diving or snorkeling is drifting within a vast school of tiny fish—completely surrounded yet never making contact as they flow effortlessly around you. This piece captures the exhilaration and wonder of that fleeting, weightless moment.
(sold)
BPM
2025. (steel, old phone wire and parts, 5ft x4 ft). The heart keeps the rhythm of our existence. This piece is both an ode to the organ itself and a reflection on its symbolic role in love, connection, and belonging.
Anemone
2024, (fabric, wood, wire, light, 4 ft diameter). A familiar resident of our West Coast tide pools is reimagined and magnified. When illuminated, each tentacle glows and shifts, revealing the quiet vitality of life beneath the surface.
(available for display, NFS)
Dragon Skin
2024. (Clay and resin, 24”x24”). Composed of many small clay spheres, this piece undulates with shifting color as the viewer moves around it. The interplay of golds and deep purples evokes something both organic and fantastical—suggestive of the iridescent skin of a dragon.
(sold)
Portals
2024, (wood and mixed media, each portal varies 12-36” diameter and 4-5 ft tall). Each of these portals invites you to consider how perspective shapes perception. How do relationships alter the way you see the world? What about fear, or the passage of time? How might substances, knowledge, or evidence influence your understanding of people and situations? Together, these portals prompt reflection on how different lenses, emotional, temporal, and experiential, can both clarify and distort what we see.
(available for display)
The Corpse of Versailles
2025, (fabric and wood, 5 ft x3 ft). The Corpse reimagines the body’s inner workings as couture, silks, velvets, and lace in place of organs. It replaces revulsion with fascination, inviting the impulse to touch rather than turn away. The body, in this vision, becomes ornament, luxury, and treasure.
(available for display)
Seeds
2025, (Fabric, wire, light) 6ftx 7ft. Seeds hold potential to transform, to connect and grow. This piece holds space for those possibilities.
(available for display)
Flow
2025. (Clay and resin, 36”x36”). This wall sculpture flows gently over ridges, echoing the ebb and flow of waves or rolling landscapes. It catches the light like water, shimmering and shifting in color as the viewer moves around it. (FS)
(available for display)
Tidepool
2025, (fabric wood, wire, light) 10×10 ft. Tidepool reimagines local sea life gathering for a luminous celebration. Anemones, starfish, and sun stars dance alongside their companions, the disco clams. These familiar residents of the West Coast intertidal zone are reimagined as playful, glowing beings—vivid with neon light and nocturnal energy.
(available for display)
Neural Network
2024, (telephone wire, 2ft x15). Each “neuron” is crocheted from discarded telephone wire, juxtaposing the new with the obsolete. Once essential to communication, the wire is rescued and repurposed into a living network of interconnected forms. Crochet, a traditional women’s craft historically linked to lace-making, brought groups together to share skills and information within community networks. Here, participants are invited to reshape the network by repositioning the neurons, echoing the continual evolution of human connection.
(available for display)