THE RUGMAKER'S DAUGHTER Exhibition Statement:

My work explores notions of identity, care, and labor. Using traditional textile processes The Rugmaker’s Daughter, examines my family structure and my place within it. Working with clothing discarded by friends and family, I spend time carefully deconstructing and reconstructing the material by sewing and weaving it back together. These collected textiles are fraught with history and meaning, possessing a lineage of fragmented memories. Piecing together snippets of these histories, I compose abstract portraits of those I have loved, presently love, and those who have been lost somewhere in between.