This body of work tell a story of caretaking and bodies.  

I create forms that resemble hand railings, columns and ladders. These architectural elements perform care for our bodies by providing access, support, guidance and confidence to navigate spaces.

I also see these forms as bodies themselves. I painstakingly layer a bruise-like palette onto their surface for these “bodies” are injured or healing. I hand-paint rather than dye my cotton because I want my hand to make each mark. Each soft form is slowly painted with care and control. 

I began making these sculptures after a period of intense caregiving and loss. Making and caring for these works has become a way to grieve the loss of my loved ones. 

My sculptures are not site-specific; instead they are responsive to their given environment. They bend, twist and adapt just as physical bodies adjust to one’s built surroundings, whether at home or in the public sphere. My forms/bodies falter and fail yet remain agile as opposed to the firm, unrelenting structures they hang from or rest upon. Power is typically ascribed words like “strong” and “firm” and yet caregiving relies on improvisation, responsiveness and agility. My sewn sculptures convey soft power.  

Through the act of sewing my work brings flexibility to fixed forms that comprise our built environment. All of these sculptures reimagine how we could soften and modify our built world to accommodate our most vulnerable members of society and ease the load of care work.