Artist statement

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If the nature of architecture is fixed and permanent then the opposite would be a textile, collapsible and movable. Any further consideration would show more common links than difference. Both mediums define space, create shelter and allow privacy. A textile however, has the advantage of flexibility. It is a semi two dimensional plane that has the ability to fold, drape move and change to its surroundings. It is pliable. 

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My work uses cloth construction as a fundamental center, a place to start from and move back to. With a background in weaving, I see myself as a builder. I draw a clear connection between the lines of thread laid perpendicularly through a warp and the construction of architectural spaces. 

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Formally, my work takes shape through a pallet of building materials either paired with or mimicking handmade textiles. I find a wonderful tension between building materials like concrete, metal, drywall or glass and the structural patterns of cloth. By pairing these seemingly opposite worlds together I invert material stereotypes, using the ‘delicate’ material to exhibit strength or exposing the ‘structural’ materials’ instabilities. These gestures allow for a reinterpretation of material identities and the viewer is left to confront their understanding of these everyday utilities.