Artist's statement
Evidence series
Tiny events regarded in isolation may seem insignificant, but when repeated over time, a long string of events can build into enormous shifts and transformations. Cracks caused by tension, collision, separation, and conflict serve as permanent, indelible records marking that a stress event has occurred. This process takes place on geological, ecological, physiological, social, and emotional levels, in huge catastrophic events, and in thousands of tiny everyday moments.
Does time heal all wounds? Or do the wounds merely fuse shut and remain forever buried in the foundation, shaping all that grows from them? Does trauma build character, or does it break us down? Does that which does not kill us really make us stronger, or does it eventually succeed in killing us?
Repetition and pattern are central to my work, as is the combining of small, repeating units to build a larger image. My process involves sewing pieces of fabric together in a series of irregular stripes, slicing through the stripes crosswise, and then reattaching them out of sequence or slightly shifted. Each fabric scrap is uninteresting in itself but is an essential contributor to the whole: their combination can’t be fully understood until the process is complete. The image presented is a cropped view of a potentially larger tableau that could continue in all directions.
Tiny events regarded in isolation may seem insignificant, but when repeated over time, a long string of events can build into enormous shifts and transformations. Cracks caused by tension, collision, separation, and conflict serve as permanent, indelible records marking that a stress event has occurred. This process takes place on geological, ecological, physiological, social, and emotional levels, in huge catastrophic events, and in thousands of tiny everyday moments.
Does time heal all wounds? Or do the wounds merely fuse shut and remain forever buried in the foundation, shaping all that grows from them? Does trauma build character, or does it break us down? Does that which does not kill us really make us stronger, or does it eventually succeed in killing us?
Repetition and pattern are central to my work, as is the combining of small, repeating units to build a larger image. My process involves sewing pieces of fabric together in a series of irregular stripes, slicing through the stripes crosswise, and then reattaching them out of sequence or slightly shifted. Each fabric scrap is uninteresting in itself but is an essential contributor to the whole: their combination can’t be fully understood until the process is complete. The image presented is a cropped view of a potentially larger tableau that could continue in all directions.