statement

Because my body is the vehicle through which I experience the world, it is this body that I choose to interview and incorporate. I use queer feminist theory in communication with personal gendered experience as a theoretical and conceptual backbone for my practice. I explore how my own identity fragments and how multiple gender expressions interact within me, both antagonizing and adoring one another. My impulse to act through textiles as a language emerges from the relationship that textiles have with the body and identity performance, as well as their ubiquitousness. The body both creates fiber and textile-adjacent structures as well as adopts outside textile objects, such as clothing, as armor, adornment, and projection. The adoption of these objects is so complete that they become synonymous with the body itself.