My work blends hand-sewn unstretched 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. This hand-sewn approach connects 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. Just as the 18th and 19th century quilts arose out of necessity for warmth in clothing and bed covers, my work is derived from a yearning to create spaces where the subjects in my paintings can be free. Historically, patchwork also became a creative outlet for women, with "quilting bees" evolving into festive occasions where women collectively worked and cemented their friendships. Similarly, through my work I aim to create emblems of sisterhood that honor this collective tradition and cement my own.

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, 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.