In the age of the disposable, I see waste not as an end point but as an opportunity — a vast source of raw material to draw upon that lend insight into how we inhabit and view our environment.

I work with the abundance of textile detritus that surrounds us: discarded clothing, household linens, remnants of production, and long-abandoned handwork. These ordinary materials serve as both evidence of global systems of production and as markers of this very particular place in time and geography.

I am fascinated by the long history of textiles and human labor, and equally by the immediate sensory experience of their colors, textures, and patterns. Using the tools and methods of industrial garment manufacturing alongside traditional textile crafts and locally available color, I process the discarded into something new. As I cut, stitch, dye, mend, and stretch the materials, they respond — fabrics warp and distort, seams fail, threads break. I think of this process as a conversation between human hands, machines, materials and time.  Above all, the work is a meditation on the fraught balance between abundance and gluttony.

I live and work in Los Angeles, CA.