Category: All Professional Work
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Anywhere I Lay My Head, Version #3
Screenprint on repurposed fabric, appliqué & reverse appliqué stitching, and salvaged plastic grocery sacks;Site responsive installation;Current arrangement approximately 36”x48”x10”;2022 This series discusses class by portraying dwellings as symbols of comfort and security. This first series compares the coziness of our house with the bastions of McMansions, symbols of conspicuous consumption and contemporary isolation. Future sets…
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Born On Third Base
Born On Third Base; Screenprint on repurposed fabric, freehand machine embroidery, appliqué & reverse appliqué stitching, and salvaged fake flowers; 4’x8′; 2023 This piece returns to the theme of the birth of our second child. Our home, the bungalow featured here and in several other pieces, spills out into a large city park featuring a…
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Little House Upon a Foundation of Others’ Homelands
Little House Upon a Foundation of Others’ Homelands; Screenprint on repurposed fabric, weaving, and freehand machine embroidery; 44″x24″; 2023 Our house sits upon the homelands of Indigenous nations. This piece acknowledges six such nations—via stripes of colors from their contemporary flags and/or seals—who occupied what is today Cape Girardeau (source: http://native-land.ca/). Thousands of other displaced…
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KIMBY (Knot In My Backyard)
KIMBY (Knot In My Backyard); Screenprint and laser engraved linocut on repurposed fabric, crochet, and appliqué & reverse appliqué stitching; 56″x48″; 2023 The theme of a covertly interconnected global neighborhood returns in this piece as crochet roots writhe and couple my home with those of my neighbors. The bright colors and loud patterns, like in…
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Refuse
Refuse; Site-responsive installation (with Hannah Sanders); Crocheted repurposed fabric, appliqué and reverse appliqué stitching, and snaps; 2018 Spill, Refuse, and (w)rest are from a series of collaborative fibers-based installations with my partner. The series uses craft and humor to investigate notions of domesticity as we come to terms with our complicity in the mess humanity…
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Raise/Raze
Site Responsive Installation;Crocheted repurposed fabric, appliqué and reverse appliqué stitching, free hand machine embroidery, and ribbon;10’ x 10’ x 9’;2022 Raise/Raze and Two Drained are part of a growing body of crochet installations, usually in collaboration with Hannah Sanders, that juxtaposes ecological miscarriages with our familial bliss. Often thought of as a “home craft”, crochet…
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Two Drained
Site Responsive Installation (with Hannah Sanders)Crocheted repurposed fabric, screenprint, appliqué and reverse appliqué stitching8’x9’’2022 Raise/Raze and Two Drained are part of a growing body of crochet installations, usually in collaboration with Hannah Sanders, that juxtaposes ecological miscarriages with our familial bliss. Often thought of as a “home craft”, crochet aligns with the domestic, while the…
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(w)rest
Installation view at Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock, TX (with Hannah Sanders); Crocheted repurposed fabric, woodcut, appliqué stitching, free hand machine embroidery, and snaps; 10’x13′; 2019 Spill, Refuse, and (w)rest are from a series of collaborative fibers-based installations with my partner. The series uses craft and humor to investigate notions of domesticity as we…
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Remains
Remains; Site-specific installation (with Hannah Sanders); Woodcut on repurposed fabric with appliqué stitching; crocheted upcycled fabric, woodcarving, and repurposed packing materials; 10’x32’x18″; 2017
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Leftovers
Site-responsive Installation at LHUCA (with Hannah Sanders); Crocheted repurposed fabrics, woodcut, wood carving, needle felting, plush forms, and collected packing materials; 18’x12′; 2019 Leftovers and Stick/Stuck (and Remains and Gargantua in the Archives) are largely improvised, site-specific installations that incorporate detritus from the exhibition host communities with components from our larger oeuvre. The finished works…
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Wean
Wean; Site-responsive installation (with Hannah March Sanders); Crocheted repurposed fabric, reverse appliqué stitching, and snaps; 14’x11′; 2017
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Squeeze
Squeeze; Site-responsive installation (with Hannah Sanders);Crocheted repurposed fabric with reverse appliqué stitching; 72″x48″; 2022
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Exhaust
Exhaust; Site-responsive installation (with Hannah March Sanders); Crocheted repurposed fabric, appliqué & reverse appliqué stitching, and snaps; 8’x9’x4′; 2016
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Stick/Stuck
Stick/Stuck; Crocheted repurposed fabric, reverse appliqué stitching, and detritus compiled from the host institution and local restaurants; 10’x27’x10′; 2023 Leftovers and Stick/Stuck (and Remains and Gargantua in the Archives) are largely improvised, site-specific installations that incorporate detritus from the exhibition host communities with components from our larger oeuvre. The finished works reference geologic strata of…