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.
Skirmishes: Connective tissue
2026. (chiffon, lace, steel). Part of a larger installation exploring the beauty and fragility of the microscopic world, this connective tissue form translates cellular structures into sculptural objects inspired by Victorian lamp design and decorative craft. The broader installation brings together key human cells, muscle, red blood, epithelial, connective, and nerve, alongside representations of historic diseases that have shaped human survival, including malaria, tuberculosis, influenza, smallpox, and bubonic plague. Suspended together, these forms create a delicate choreography between resilience and vulnerability, drawing attention to the intricate systems that sustain life and the ever-present forces that threaten it. Through ornament, light, and pattern, the work elevates microscopic biology into a contemplative environment where beauty and fragility coexist.
Available for installation
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)
Mother’s bowls
2026. (wood, eggshells, acrylic, gold leaf, each circle 18″). Each circular form evokes both ceramic vessels and aerial views of shifting coastlines, where branching lines suggest fractures, currents, or slowly forming landscapes. The repetition across three panels invites the eye to move between variations in color, texture, and gesture. Rooted in memory and material exploration, the work reflects on fragility, beauty, and the subtle patterns that emerge through time.
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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.
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Seeds
2025, (Fabric, wire, light) 6ftx 7ft. Seeds hold potential to transform, to connect and grow. This piece holds space for those possibilities.
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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)
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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)