Winding, binding, and braiding thousands of feet of fiber into fabrics speaks to my desire to find pattern in chaos, to organize new information into a cohesive system, and to understand the materials of my daily experience. The works in this wide-ranging series, begun in 2017, explore issues of disillusionment, contradiction, Jewish diaspora, and absurdity through embroidery, welding, lacemaking, collage, and crochet. These objects and installations oscillate between representational and experiential, between line and form, and assert that paradox and doubt can be tools for somatic knowledge and introspection.
Caught Up, 2021, chair frame, polypropylene rope, gold wire, champagne cage, copper wire How Do You Know?, 2021, raw steel, thread, upholstery fabric, notes from mom, wire, door hinge, shells, paper clips, leather scrap, pipe cleaner and sequin flower from Hadley, rope, dried rosemary, wood