Artist Statement

My art tries to help people slow down and be more in their bodies because that is when we feel most connected to our environment. I do that by making intricately detailed weavings, prints, and installations that invite a mood of quiet playfulness. Using layered color, text, and woven patterns, I build complex pieces that encourage slow looking. They hover between pictorial and abstract, dissolving out of focus.

I choose textiles and printmaking because these traditions connect me to community and place, and the labor is mischievously time-consuming. Slowness opens tolerance for doubt. Slowness leads to entaglement. 

My parents were homesteaders in Nebraska's Umónhon (Omaha) territory, so I grew up close to nature. Eye disease deepened this attachment. I savored my eyesight by observing the prairie landscape: the horizon, dusk colors, animal structures. My artistic practice continues this kind of wonder-scrutiny. With my good eye, I zoom in on fragments of landscape; my blind eye is where mystery alchemizes.

I use left-right symbolism, rooted in the body, to playfully challenge binary thinking. My work offers an alternative to the hurried duality of capitalism that pressures us to simplify, categorize, separate ourselves from nature and each other.