Each drapery is sewn from bed sheets and hangs freely over its own wooden wall mount. Raw fabric edges are finished with bias tape I cut, iron, and paint. Using fluid acrylics, I slowly paint in successive layers often referencing fragmented oral imagery.

For twenty years, I have been collecting, transforming, and then incorporating used, patterned bed sheets into my art. Accumulation is not only integral to my process, but it’s also partly what my work is about. Fascinated by positive and negative space and by making shapes that visually compete with one another, I explore notions of femininity and feminism, high and low forms of making, labor, dreaming, and disasters. My approach to the process is improvisational, but within constraints I’ve defined, seeking a balance between the chaotic and the structured. Feminism also informs and supports both how I make and the materials I choose to work with. Influenced by clothing construction, bodily orifices, curtains, windows, and cycles in nature, my work is a material exploration of the immaterial.