My practice explores spaces of transition; between bodies and materials, genders and identities, comfort and constraint. Working across painting, textiles, and sculpture, I am interested in the in-betweens: the moments where boundaries soften or blur and new forms emerge.
Drawing from a farmers family background, my work is grounded in tactility and labor. Touch, texture, and the sensory encounter with materials guide my process. This sensitivity extends to an attention to class and gender as structures that shape and discipline the body. By reworking clothing materials, particularly shapewear, I investigate how the aesthetics of containment and smoothness influence our understanding of self and desirability. When deconstructed, these textiles become alternative topographies: bodily, wounded, protective – and seen.
Across media, I consider how identity, gender fluidity, and social structures intersect. The histories of textile labor and environmental degradation caused by the fashion industry are not separate from the personal and emotional narratives of the body; they coexist within the same fabric. Similarly, my paintings address how gender and family trauma are inscribed and reimagined through surface and gesture.
My work seeks to inhabit the tension between control and vulnerability, repulsion and attraction. I aim to create spaces that hold contradiction; where softness can be a radical source of strength.