STATEMENT
I sew sculpted quilt-works stitched from textiles donated by people in my rural Mississippi town. My works are fantastical vessels on imagined adventures of personal escape, projecting surreal inner visions of dream-seeking. The archeology of deciphering trashed textiles reveals recurring themes: the labor of Craft, consumerist fallout on the natural world, the uncovering of human connections across space and time and the infinite promise between mother and child.
My mother taught me to quilt and I inherited a doll-making obsession from my grandmother. The rest I learned from YouTube.
I hand-sew and upholster shaped forms. I compare global conflicts, both historical and current, with interpersonal psychodramas.
Experimental enthusiasm, optimism, humor and the philosophy that Craft is the beginning and end of all Art guides my work.
