This is How She Lives
This Is How She Lives , 2025
Steel, studio scraps, various yarns and threads, and collected costume jewelry
34” x 34” x 58”
I always create multiples, bundles, masses, and knotted forms through slow, compulsive processes. These gestures reflect bodily cycles and rhythms as well as
emotional patterns that I have, such as anxiety, fixation, and compulsion.
My scrap bundles combine fabrics saved from past projects and bind them together with thread. I collected old costume jewelry and embedded it in the core of these rough, tightly clustered masses. These jewels then become small treasures among the wrapped chaos. Through accumulation, the bundles lose individual identity and function instead as a dense, tumor-like form that invites closer inspection.
Across my work, embedding operates as both method and metaphor. To embed is to sink, fix, or press one material into another until they become inseparable. I use this gesture to consider what bodies hold, what they expel, and what is forced upon them. These materials store memory, trauma, comfort, and transformation. Soft and hard forms press against one another, generating physical tension that mirrors the balance between protection and exposure