My practice is an act of reclaiming connections to my home, my ancestry, and my identity.

As a Native artist and researcher navigating displacement, my relationship with textiles examines how memory informs the ways we understand ourselves and relationship to place.
Water informs my practice, both through process and memory. I include her voice as an invitation for us to wonder and listen, bringing attention to her presence and our responsibility to care for what gives us life.

Color influences my decision making and informs how I build relationships between material and memory. Stitching, weaving, and layering, allows me to work with repetition and tension to create surfaces that connect fragments of memory. By collaborating with these materials, knowledge and complexity live within the surfaces that emerge.

My work holds space for the intentional act of imagining beyond limitations, expectations, and narratives that have been placed on us. It invites wonder as a way to shift how we understand who we are and where we belong. Through acts of listening, we are able to build reciprocal relationships with place that carry ancestral memory forward, bringing us into a deeper relation with the world we live in. Slowing down and giving attention to what evokes memory, wonder becomes a way of thinking and making that moves us beyond limits and into possibility.