Women’s Work

These pieces are investigations using methods and materials that have been historically labeled 'women’s work'. The fabrics and threads that were tied to domesticity, the skills that wives and mothers were taught in order to keep a house.

Statement: “I feel positively about associating myself with my art in a way that directly honors the experience of being a woman, despite the attack on reproductive rights in this country making the identity feel ugly and unsafe. I tell personal stories with my work, and with that I confront the reality of the often-painful things that have happened to me, directly because I am a woman. I spend hours embroidering words I write about my experiences, and it is a time to meditate on these things painful and joyful. And then when I am smooshing paint around, often thickly, I am creating, as they say, body. I see the entire process as an extension of my own physical being.”

Piece of Meat, 2023

Both: 14” x 14”, 2023, $500 each.

Identity Politics, 2024

55” x 18”, embroidery on linen, $1,000.

Identity Politics

Pillows, 2023

Embroidered poetry on linen pillows. $200 each.

Demons

You suck like your parents’ demons

useless life unbound by promise

Your beauty traipses the earth

in colorful grimy replicas

You’re nice

You’ll understand

You smile so

you must be able to take care

Complete the space around you

then play the game for cash

It’s a laugh and a fuck

Some fun and a contradiction