This year, I continued to explore embroidering into cloth as I weave. Working with embroidery this way allows me to transcend the structural parameters of the loom, generating patterns that ebb and flow like a good conversation. The geometric imagery I employ hovers on the cusp of becoming a coded language. Working at the loom serves as a meditation, connecting me in a deeper sense to my subconscious. My work then becomes a method of self expansion and reflection. 

In June, I spent two weeks working as the fiber studio tech at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Located on a remote island off the coast of Maine, this residency was filled with artists who were at the forefront of the Craft movement. My job was to facilitate, manage, and educate within the fiber studio, but I was also left with time to pursue my own work and research. I began to reflect on the textiles from which I draw most of my influence, and realized that in all of these traditions the common thread is the hand-woven ground-cloth onto which dazzling geometric embroidered imagery is laid. I began to experiment with weaving my own ground-cloth, and in that move the entire direction of my work changed. I have begun to use embroidery as a tool in conjunction with weaving to gain a deeper understanding of patterns in weaving structures. Reincorporating weaving into my practice has felt incredibly natural and fulfilling, and it is invigorating to be making new moves in my studio after feeling like I had settled into a particular aesthetic. 

Textile paintings using hand and machine embroidered interruptions on digitally printed drawings.

Breathing Square was a site-specific installation created at the Ocean Terrace Hotel as part of Tiger Strikes Asteroid's Artist-Run Fair during Miami Arts Week 2015. Platform Gallery invited me to work with them and transform a room in this abandoned hotel. In addition to installing a full show of my textile work, I created site-specific murals that responded to the architectural anomalies within the room.

Correlations was my Thesis show at Maryland Institute College of Art. For this show I created a modular series of textile works using digital fabric printing with hand-embroidered "interruptions". These works were activated by a site-specific backdrop I created using black and white painters' tape.

Experiments with digital print, needlepoint, and weaving.