Artist Statement
In an age of constant digital connection, I create fiber art that examines what it means to truly connect. My work emerges from a simple paradox: we live more connected than ever before, yet genuine human connection feels increasingly elusive.
I build abstract, web-like structures from fiber—a material that demands time, touch, and attention. Working with traditional materials, I subvert conventional techniques to create forms that map the invisible networks linking us together. These tangled, layered compositions visualize the complex systems we navigate daily: neural pathways, social networks, the threads of memory and relationship.
The slow, repetitive nature of fiber work contradicts our accelerated world. Each piece requires hours of deliberate action—knotting, weaving, layering—processes that resist speed. This temporal quality becomes part of the work's meaning. Where digital connection happens instantly and disappears just as fast, my hand-built structures insist on duration, on the value of time invested.
I manipulate shape, color, and negative space to create visual tension. The viewer encounters something simultaneously organic and constructed, chaotic and ordered—much like the experience of seeking authentic connection in our hyperconnected lives.
My work asks viewers to slow down, to consider the networks—both visible and invisible—that bind us. I want them to feel the weight of physical presence, to recognize that some forms of connection cannot be rushed or replicated digitally.