My work blends hand-sewn canvases with painting, using stitching as both a technique and a conceptual tool to create layered surfaces that explore themes of memory, identity, and materiality. During the 60s and 70s feminist movement, artists created works using materials and techniques associated with “women’s work” such as textiles, sewing and embroidery. Similarly, through my work I aim to use sewing to connect to historical textile practices while allowing me to create contemporary compositions that draw from my experiences and the women in my life, weaving together documentation and invention. 

In my work, color acts as both a form of expressive liberation and protective camouflage. These hues I choose allow my subjects—and myself—to simultaneously navigate between visibility and invisibility, shapeshifting, and finding freedom to expand and unravel. The figures in my paintings, often close friends, exist in sanctuary-like spaces that reject or confront the external gaze. These environments, free from societal constraints, allow for the embodiment of playfulness, tenderness, mischief, and fluidity—qualities too often denied to Black and brown women.