Opening Reception: Geobiology , studies of how life and place interact and co-evolve.

This series of wall-hanging constructions is a meditation on process, materials, and identity. The work is a look at queering the perceptions of ‘women’s work’ with alternative perspectives of gendered labor, craft, and production. The work is handcrafted with my small Kenmore sewing machine, bobbins of thread, a radial sander, acrylic paint, and finished with a construction grade Linseed and Tung hardening oil. The work is gently worn, the patterns are not perfect, and the stitching coming apart. The work expresses a tension between safety and risk, protection and woundedness.