I am constantly chasing my longing, snatching fibers from its movement to make my art, before the ache morphs into its next elusive form. Each resulting piece preserves visuals of what I pine for—relief and understanding in phases of consuming depression, absorbing environments that contrast distress and instability with comfort and security, and illustrations of strengthening relationships with myself, individuals, community, and the environment.
The materials I work with are often items and images I have already lived intimately with or soon will in the making process. Newsprint scraps, disposable products, natural plants, clay coils, and wool yarn are my frequent and recent collaborators. As we approach the source of longing, we enter a meditative state of repetitive creation, sometimes in slow tying of yarn knots or molding paper onto common objects.
Regardless the mode of making, each installation, print, or video forms by amassed collecting. At times, draping abstract beings grow out of these accumulations while other results are packaged intimate moments decorated with earth tones on paper and digital reels of recorded experiences of my everyday motions. Working modularly and repetitively with organic and domestic materials facilitates a slow progress of healing through inviting familiarity. In the brief lives of these pieces (and in their ghost documentation) I can observe the preserved ephemerality of my longing until it’s time to catch it again.