My art practice and research are grounded in experiences of excessive acquisition, compulsive hoarding behaviors and acts of connection through a range of media - storytelling, nurture care, fiber, objects and installation. My work often begins with an examination of a domestic object or chore with its interrogation translated into an art process. Inspiration lies within the stories and ephemera of personal debris and the debris of my community. I am interested in people’s relationships with forgotten objects, kept because something about it required keeping. And why do we keep these things? What are we able to let go?  My practice is guided by these relationships as well as questioning the value of quotidian detritus.

Through this lens of the unnecessary keeping of things, nearly any waste object can embody value. Debris collected from the sorting of friends’ junk drawers becomes their own collaborative, crocheted sculptures, connecting memories and people. Swept piles in my kitchen are photographed and made into abstract drawings/painting, later informing weavings turned creature-rugs, woven with personal debris (as well as from community skill shares). Stains on dish towels and holey socks map the mending of embroidery stitches alluding to the history of textile rehabilitation. The responses are an intervention and an act of repair, both of the past and the object, bestowing meaning to the mundane.