Artist statement

Working on a large scale, my works are primarily made through arm knitting using hand-dyed unspun wool, constantly changing due to the material's agency and interaction with the environment, allowing for endless possibilities. By taking up space, my pieces reclaim textiles to be a potent means of artistic expression through their immediate mode of communicating to and with the body. My practice reconnects to the body as a way of being in the world, seeing it as a useful tool in approaching the nonhuman. Although made through the body, my structures exceed it and become both a representation of my body, as well as something completely different from it, which has a force of its own.My works confront the role of my body and myself in the grand scheme of things, understanding that I am just one actor among many nonhuman ones. I aim to deconstruct the long-commodified relationship with materials and the natural world, advocating for a new consciousness that practices care and intrinsic knowledge, which comes only from working alongside these nonhuman actors.