Prepare A Table - Solo Exhibition

Through experimentation with quilting, hand-stitching, natural dye, or basketry, I explore ways of planting love and patience into tangible objects. I interact with the natural world and find ways to honor the materials I use and the places they come from. By using natural materials and dyes my goal is to give agency back to the plants I use and bring awareness to how alive and beautiful the materials around us are. Whether through repeated hand stitches, hand printed patterns, or interlocking forms, I find joy in and am grounded by ways of making that are slow and repetitive. I value these kinds of processes along with labor-intensive methods of making, like natural dyeing, because of the way they require me to reflect on my hands at work and the intimacy they create between myself and the material. I am inspired by traditional quilts and the generations of women who have participated in this craft before me. I reflect on my place in this ancestry of quilters through the use of continual patterns: each repetition represents a mother who taught her daughter and then taught her daughter. The slow act of making by hand brings my awareness to the mundane and unrushed parts of life, and I invite others to sit at the table and share in this ritual.