I make visual art to explore connections between line, color, shape and spatial relationships, employing textile and paint. My color palette of cool tones has been a unifying component of my work.

I have been consistent with exploring yarn, used in the form of crochet in a square format, often including paint as part of the textile works. These pieces have evolved from crochet and paint on small canvases, to large canvases, to removing the canvas entirely and letting the wall hold the work. The wall has became part of the structural component of the textile compositions. In this series of works, the crochet appears to be organized, evolving with order and clarity. Yet they are made from a sort of "unregulated" geometry, that is not contemplated or considered and often results in a distorted shape. They are free flowing throughout the process, then eventually tied together until the culmination, where they are pulled tense at certain points and emerge into unexpected conclusions. The crochet stitch is humble and an unrepeatable invented pattern that is a constant of the work.

At the same time as the crochet works, I often use vintage garments that have been cut up, taken apart and reconfigured and then employ knotted yarn to hold the textile pieces together. Working without the square grid of the crochet works, these pieces allow me to be free of structure and without arrangement.

As part of this multi-disciplinary practice, I developed a series of painted works on wood panel in which I continued the exploration of shape, line and color using circular line shapes that mimic crochet. Using collage, vintage wallpaper and paint as the primary mediums, the use of yarn has been omitted.

All of these different bodies of work, carry intimacy, inheritance and transformation, as they are all informed by my upbringing. Growing up with yarn, fabrics and other textile materials was routine for me, and it brings with it a sense of belonging and home..

My most recent work considers my minimalistic, conceptual and formal sensibilities, using yarn to explore movement, shape and line. I am interested in exploring spatial relationships with movement, while embracing an extreme form of abstraction, stripping the textile material down to its most basic component. Through the use of a simple ball of yarn, I can use the linear element to set forth on a direct course while adopting material restraint and eliminating the structured crochet squares of the previous body of work. Through repetition and geometry, this newest work contemplates how much can be held through structure alone without the need for a personal narrative.