Photo Fiber Works
About the work
Photography plays the role of identifier and place in my work. It sets the state of reality within the work, allowing the viewer a context for what is seen. In contrast, embroidery represents the “otherness” I’m exploring, the things unseen but believed to exist. The combination of these two materials together creates an expanded reality, one where the seen and unseen coexist.
I examine my relationship with different entities, such as the shape of a memory, the weight of loneliness and loss, a wave of nostalgia, or the ringing emptiness of the unknown. I weave my own understanding of the invisible into my work through the lens of lived experience, personal accounts, and research on the subject. I want not only to understand how something works, but what it feels like to encounter it.
