My work as an artist involves a wide range of materials that attempt to capture the ephemeral - the often over-looked fleeting elements of daily life. The techniques with which I work range from traditional drawing and painting to mixed media to experiments in photography to the traditional women’s crafts of quilting, sewing, crocheting and knitting. As a young child, I learned these techniques from my mother and grandmother. I received my first camera for my eighth birthday and have been photographing the details of life around me as a daily habit.

Whether it is a specific color or composition, a fabric pattern or perhaps even a mundane detail of my life, through photographs and drawing, I document my surroundings. The images I capture are important narrative elements. I use these visual records as references for knitting, crocheting, and woven fabric patterns. The photographs can stand-alone. They become a kind of map, which serves as visual references to specific times and places.

At present, I crochet abstract forms from collected yarns. The crocheted forms are another semblance of drawing and painting. The consistent stitches are formed in a circular pattern with a single strand of yarn. Colors become variegated. Each element has its own repetitive rhythm. The technique allows me to create a physical manifestation of my diverse yet intertwined melancholic threads. The making of these forms has become meditative: the physical rhythm and repetition of crocheting is way to both collect and release secrets, thoughts and fears.