My work explores epistemological and ontological questioning pertaining to so-called negative psychological affect. Through the collision of woven and nonwoven textile techniques like spinning, weaving, and papermaking, I transform conventionally flaccid and fluid materials into ossified and precarious states of both being and becoming. I am interested in the ways in which materials are able to convey moods, such as anxiety or melancholy, and how their tensile structures can point at once towards sources of attachment as much as directionalities for emancipation. Tension-ridden materialities emerge often charged with representations of bottled force as I seek to suspend moments between tension and release, stability and collapse, permanence and potential.

My research process draws from a variety of fields including architecture, acoustics, Critical and affect theories, psychopathology, and religious studies. The work currently manifests itself in sculpture, painting, and installation as I strive to reify negative mood states as obscure, yet fruitful, amalgamations- bringing them out of the depths of innate disorder and into the light of public discourse for communal problem solving and healing.