Artist Statement:
My work is an inquiry into what happens when craft practices come into use with utilitarian objects—as a way to upend assumptions as to what an item’s inherent value is. The built environment has the power to dictate what we see and don’t see. A key element of my practice is to extract the quotidian features in galleries and other interiors, borrowing them for their aesthetic value and using them as materials to form traditionally fiber-based crafts–– lights and cords are woven through ceramics or the gallery wall, extension cords make macramé chains. I am particularly interested in how these objects continue to transform via performance. By building the potential to move, these sculptures have an opportunity to express agency rarely given to inanimate objects.