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STATEMENT OF WORK
Working with used, patterned bed sheets, I make wall-based works dripping with ruffles, pleats, and improvisational painting with roots in material abstraction. The surface of a bed is a place where one both experiences and escapes reality, a gateway between two realms; accordingly, I want my work to occupy a space where dreaming and waking life overlap. Dated textile patterns act as windows for peering into specific times and places from the past. Like skin, fabric retains a physical memory of experiences; it wrinkles from habitual use and environmental conditions. Abstraction offers a visual language for me to explore psychological themes. Ambiguous forms depict the malleability of memory. Negative space shapes substantive forms as an environment impacts those occupying it. Patterns and repetition stand in for habitual behaviors like taking the same route daily. Feminism informs and supports my process, materials, and techniques I choose to work with. Influenced by clothing construction, the human body, curtains, windows, flowers, and cycles in nature, my art is a material exploration of the immaterial.