Artist Statement

My work explores the intersection of quilting, memory, and lived experience through craft, autoethnography, performance, and site-specific installation. By reimagining quilting as a form of autoethnography, I use it to reflect on and analyze personal history, elevating it beyond its traditional role as functional craft. Quilts become vessels for memory, carrying personal and collective histories through each stitch and fabric choice. My practice investigates how memory and tradition are passed down through objects and how quilting can serve as both a metaphor and a vehicle for these ideas. Two key questions guide my work: What do quilts pass down, and how can art highlight the transmission of memory and tradition? How do performance and site-specific installation, combined with quilting, challenge notions of craft, memory, and tradition? I view craft objects as symbolic objects, deeply connected to labor, time, and emotional history. Through performance and installation, I explore how quilting can move beyond craft into a more nuanced dialogue with contemporary art.