Today’s world is mediated through a screen; images are both literally flat and thin while depicting texture and volume in high resolution. We yearn for luscious images while our relationship to tangible, historic and archival objects dwindle and erode. My artwork explores how self-representation, historic and personal narratives play out while going between digital and tactile environments.
 
I digitally combine my own handcrafted embroideries, hand-dyed fabrics and antique textiles with sleek photographs. The digital collage of these are then printed large-scale on new fabric and re-stitched back into in order to create textures that invite touch while evading a clear understanding of how they exist in space. The confusion between photographic printed and three-dimensional elements reflects how we navigate between digital flat spaces and our physical, dimensional world. My fiber work references craft, “women’s work,” and the maker movement and reflect on themes of belonging, Southern, feminine, and social media identity.
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​I grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I received my Bachelors from Barnard College at Columbia University in New York City and earned a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD. I went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2013. Before returning to the South, I returned to New York City for several years where I worked in a fashion design studio and for an architecture firm. I have experience teaching art and design to a wide range of students as well as doing freelance work in the Photography, Fashion and Publishing. I have exhibited in galleries across the Southeast, live in Atlanta, and currently work as an Adjunct Professor of Photography, Art Appreciation, and Design at Georgia Gwinnett College and Georgia Military College.