I am inhabiting a changing body and a changing Earth. In my practice, I use my intuition to explore the interior places within the body where memories are held. Working in a technique that I call expanded weaving, sculptural elements entwine with woven forms to conjure resilience and expand the capacity of the loom. With the transformation of scavenged materials into new forms I honor cycles of death and rebirth, prioritizing the sensual, asserting my connection to the life force that animates and unites all beings. I twist yarn into thick, intestinal ropes that I dye with plant matter, encase and alter found objects with beeswax and minerals, and construct crooked yet stable armatures from salvaged lumber and used hardware. I utilize performance to mediate between the worlds of the living and the dead and to spin, from my own inner substance, a cocoon which becomes the container for pain and pleasure to be alchemized. The spirit of imperfection is my greatest influence. Shaped by my experiences with chronic illness and by my complicated desire for healing, my practice serves as an homage to the tools and modifications that I invent in order to make the world more accessible to me, and to the communities and relationships that allow me to thrive. I seek to liberate myself and others from the confines of archaic and unnatural systems to which we couldn’t even conform if we tried. My background as an activist and community organizer greatly influences the ways in which I offer my work to the public. The communities I seek to engage are multigenerational and multi-temporal, comprised of the living and the non-living. Through my collaboration with the Threshold Choir I continue the ancient tradition of singing at the bedsides of the dying, shaping sound into an unseen and enveloping force which changes all it touches. I am a weaver of works and of worlds.