Shaped by Paper, Cloth, and Process
My work explores ways of knowing—how we learn to see the world, and how those ways of seeing shape what we value, understand, and control. I’m interested in how bodies, materials, and environments hold memory, sensation, and change over time. And in the tension between embodied experience and systems that seek to classify and organize the living world.
Through layered, process-driven approaches, I contrast the improvised textiles, collage, drawing, and printmaking with visual languages borrowed from science and natural history used to catalog and classify the world. By stitching, fragmenting, obscuring, and reassembling, I create works that resist fixed categories and invite more relational, embodied forms of knowing. These pieces do not simply document experience; they move through it, exploring what becomes possible when knowing is allowed to remain fluid, layered, and alive.
Studio Map
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Mixed Media
Collage, experimental printmaking, watercolor, drawing, assemblage, and small intimate works shaped by process, layering, and improvisation to explore memory, knowledge, and change over time. Most pieces are created on paper and are under 9 × 12 inches.
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Textile Stories
Improv quilts, mixed media quilts and scrolls, slow-stitched textiles — functional and narrative objects. These works grow through improvisation and slow stitching, attending to rhythm, shape, color, and texture as a way of studying how the body holds memory over time.
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Days with Sage
Thoughtfully made home goods and accessories. The Days with Sage collection extends my studio work into functional pieces for daily life — worn, carried, shared, and lived with.
Commissions
I consider commissions for textile work, mixed media, and Days with Sage items.
Commissions develop slowly and collaboratively with attention to materials, scale, and how the piece will be used or lived with. Rather than starting from a fixed outcome, the process allows space for listening, response, and adaptation.
Teaching & Workshops
I facilitate group and 1:1 sessions for social prescribing, creative health and aging, and other arts and health programs.
Coming Soon: a list of upcoming workshops.