Headlands Center for the Arts

While at Headlands

I will host weaving workshops for survivors of sexual assault and speak my grief to the ocean. I will weave community and build relationships with the land. I will make sound and sit in silence. I will continue to explore large-scale, sculptural tapestry weaving, always working in collaboration with the unknown. I’ve begun to work much more three-dimensionally, and I’m excited to continue this experimentation. I want to find out how much further I can expand.  

Artist Statement

I am inhabiting a changing body and a changing Earth. Working in a technique that I call expanded weaving, sculptural elements entwine with woven forms to conjure resilience and expand the capacity of the loom. I honor cycles of death and rebirth through the transformation of scavenged materials into new forms, prioritizing the sensual, asserting my connection to the life force that animates and unites all beings. I work with the medium of sound as an unseen and enveloping force which changes all it touches. The communities I seek to engage are multigenerational and multi-temporal, comprised of the living and the non-living. My work is shaped by my experiences with grief and chronic illness and by my complicated desire for healing. At the core of my practice is a desire to spin, from my own inner substance, a cocoon which becomes the container for pain and pleasure to be alchemized.