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STATEMENT OF WORK
My practice is an exploration of painting through its relationship to craft. I am interested in the objecthood of what we consider images, and my work focuses on woven structures as a site for conflict between image and material, surface and depth.
I treat each painting like a sculpture, or at least like a garment of clothing, a sculptural craft, with the stretcher bars acting as mannequin. My materials (fabric, dye, bleach, thread) and processes (tie-dye, shibori, machine sewing, zigzag stitches) connect my paintings to textile craft traditions, but involve painterly interrogations of space, color, and perception.
I am striving for iterations of abstract painting which represent a unity of form and content – in this case, a wonky and handmade but immaculate image, indivisible from its material form and dimensions, confounding to a cycloptic camera yet familiar, inviting, but still uncanny to in-person eyes.