About me
I’m an artist who sees the layers in things. Layers in old quilts, lives lived, the disparate parts we hold. For over twenty years I’ve been deconstructing and remaking things. Reweaving cloth, recharting paths, reworking to become whole.
I grew up surrounded by hooked rugs my mother and grandmother made from old wool and discarded cloth. In these rugs one green could be, on closer look, ten different greens. I’ve been looking at things that closely ever since.
In high school I learned to weave by way of a best friend’s suggestion. The process clicked for me, its groundedness and pattern (just like she knew it would). I went on to study weaving and dyeing at Earlham College and later in Japan. In graduate school at the University of Washington, I took to deconstructing cloth instead. Connecting loss of thread to life lost in war. Pulling, inking, grieving. Whitewashing the numbers over time until they looked and felt like stone, and started to crack off.
I’m a friend, daughter, teacher, partner, weaver, artist, and coach. I have a gift for quiet, complex seeing and an ability to create safe space. I love places where things overlap.
In 2012, I moved to Western North Carolina for a three-year residency at Penland School of Craft, where I remain part of an interdependent community of artists, connected by craft and the natural surrounds of the Blue Ridge Mountains.