Still Life, Slipping
Vintage drawer, pattern paper, lace, hand stitching
8 × 18 × 2.5 inches
This work reimagines still life through a form assembled from vintage sewing patterns and undergarments—materials shaped by everyday rituals of care and presentation. The paper and cloth carry embedded instructions, flattening the body into measured forms and echoing the quiet labor of maintaining appearances.
Placed within a drawer, the figure becomes part of a domestic arrangement yet does not fully rest; it slips forward, slightly unsettled. The piece reflects on how ordinary objects hold cultural expectations, and how even within stillness there can be movement—a subtle shift between structure and release.
Kept
Vintage drawer, pattern cloth, hand stitching, writing fragment
15 × 5.5 × 4 inches
Kept considers what is held in place and what remains unseen. A length of pattern cloth is stretched within a narrow drawer, stitched along a central seam that begins to open, revealing a fragment of handwritten text beneath. The surface appears intact, yet the tension along the seam suggests pressure from within.
Using materials associated with sewing—pattern, thread, and cloth—the work reflects on containment, preservation, and the quiet act of keeping something closed, even as it begins to give way.
Breaking Pattern
Vintage sewing chest, pattern paper, netting, thread, hand stitching, book fragments
10 × 13 × 12 inches
Breaking Pattern explores the moment when something contained begins to change. A bird constructed from sewing pattern paper pushes out of a cabinet of labeled drawers. The lowest drawer, marked Caught, holds tangled netting and migration imagery—forces that capture and contain movement. Above it, Courage marks the effort of emergence, while the upper drawer, Possibility, remains closed, holding an unknown future.
Using materials associated with sewing—patterns, thread, and pins—the work reflects on how transformation begins when we break the forms that once defined us.
Still Rising
Vintage garments, beaded ornament, pattern paper, lace, hand stitching
21 × 30 inches
This work explores transformation as an embodied process. Constructed from sewing pattern paper, thread, and layered materials, the figure emerges through fragments of instruction and form. The patterns, originally intended to shape garments, instead map a body in transition—one that is neither fixed nor fully defined.
Lines, pins, and seams suggest both structure and constraint, while the form itself shifts and opens, resisting containment. The piece reflects on how identity is shaped through inherited frameworks and how transformation can occur through their disruption. Becoming here is not a finished state, but an ongoing movement between structure and release.