About My Work

Because fiber art is tactile as well as visual, each work I create is both object and image. The dominant focus of my artwork is an attention to aspects of reality that may be just our of sight or conscious awareness. They reveal how we live in and experience the world.

My subject may be fluid leaking from a parked car or the calligraphic strokes of a graffiti tagger. In the day-to-day world, I find abstract beauty that transcends the mundane and is embedded with meaning.  Functional surfaces—walls, floors, pavements—record human activities that have left their marks on them, either intentionally or unwittingly.  These traces reveal how we live and what matters most to us.

Materials and medium influence how someone experiences my work. When I translate my photographs of walls and other hard surfaces into the "soft" medium of Jacquard weaving and then present them on a wall, their function as surface changes.  Rendered in threads on an industrial loom, these images may bend or tilt our perspective.  A wall on a wall becomes a new kind of wall.

When I construct an image entirely by hand, thread by thread, both the process and the finished result become even more abstract.  The work moves into an introspective, spiritual dimension.  Working this way gives me the opportunity to put emphasis on color and physical texture.