Maternal histories exist in fragments- scattered across archives, and often require acts of repair to be fully understood. In my artistic practice, I work within this space of absence, collecting threads of memories from my maternal ancestors who have called Maine home for generations and use Critical Fabulation to repair them, darning them with fiction and thread. My interdisciplinary approach combines painting, fiber arts, photography, writing, and archival research to explore memory, materiality, and absence. By creating paintings using historic quilt patterns and secondhand Maine textiles, I create a dialogue between women’s history, craft tradition, and contemporary storytelling.
I truly appreciate my professors, mentors, fellow MFA colleagues, and my students who have all taught me so much and pushed me in different ways to be the best artist I can be. I also particularly appreciate the focus on research at FSU- it has propelled my artistic practice in a way I never would have imagined.