Statement

Grounded in my experience of disability, I understand bodily difference as a generative force rather than a limitation. My practice centers sculptural textiles and hybrid forms that engage the body as both subject and sensor. Through a lens of crip wisdom, I understand slowness, interdependence, and sensory difference as sources of knowledge, resistance, and repair.
I work with salvaged leather, hand-dyed fabrics, and mechanical fragments, materials marked by prior lives and chosen for their ability to hold tension, texture, and memory. These sewn and layered pieces function as tactile forms: part garment, part interface, part terrain. They invite engagement through scent, touch, and interaction.
Working in sculptural textiles involves layered, responsive processes. Textiles, encrusted objects, machine parts, and rescued scraps are manipulated into structures that make palpable what is often invisible. These machines house tools of exploration that enable visceral encounter.
These “sensorial machines” may be worn, handled, or physically encountered; some breathe scent, evoke shelter, or extend prosthetic forms. Each piece holds tension between exposure and refuge, utility and ornament. I think of these forms as offerings of service: protective coverings, interactive tools, and kinetic architectures that respond to the viewer.