Artist Statement

My studio practice centers on quilting and paper collage, visually drawing from gardens, decorative arts, architecture, and traditional quilt patterns. Through improvisational processes of cutting, layering, stitching, and gluing, I create works that explore beauty, resilience, and queer placemaking amid conditions of social and economic precarity. Floral motifs, patchwork grids, and architectural fragments recur throughout the work, linking domestic and public spaces to questions of memory and belonging.

As a queer artist, I situate my practice within feminist and queer art histories and craft traditions, considering how handmade forms can hold and transmit embodied knowledge. I am interested in how queer and trans legacies are preserved, shared, and pieced together across generations outside of heteronormative structures of inheritance. The fragmentary nature of quilting and collage reflects the ways queer histories are often assembled through memory, community, and acts of recovery and resilience.

Working primarily with cotton, linen, and painted paper, I use traditional piecework and collage techniques to develop layered compositions through observation and experimentation. The slow, labour-intensive process of quilting allows me to engage with histories of craft and domestic making, while collage enables a more fluid and improvisational approach to image-making and composition. Through quilting and collage, I create work that consider beauty, intimacy, and collective memory as forms of queer survival.