I combine different textures and materials using traditional joining techniques often used by women. Quilting aluminum cans, making bracelets for trees, creating chain links with dryer hose as well as paper collage and weaving photographs.

I grew up knitting and sewing and making things when ever I could. Once I started my own practice, I’ve been drawn to using traditional techniques such as sewing and knitting to join unusual components. My art is fluid, sliding between large and small, simple and complex pieces, always embracing the combination of disparate materials. I am as happy collaging paper as I am working with large sheets of steel. As the parent of two grown children the act of holding things together is ingrained in my being.