— Textile Art, Installation, Set Design
As an art director working in the fashion space, I’ve thought about how I could make a positive influence on the issue of textile waste. Starting from home, I deconstructed my old clothes and started to sew quilted pieces together with the fabric. Continuing to perfect my sewing skills, I began to think about other material sources. With my connection to ONS Clothing, I came across an assortment of damaged indigo tshirts that I happily took off their hands. The pockets on the shirts inspired this idea of incorporating pockets - visible and hidden - into the tapestries. For Earth Week at the ONS Flagship store, I sewed a 3’x9’ backdrop installation using the upcycled indigo fabrics and placed plant clippings into the pockets to show its additional function. This led to me working with FabScrap in Brooklyn, NY in sourcing more upcycled fabrics to use as backdrops for photoshoots and displays.
The Coolture art show held in the ONS resident artists space of their Nolita store featured tapestries that I created using a mix of fabric from my personal clothing, ONS dead stock and Fabscrap textiles. I hoped to show what can be done with the resources around us.
— Paper Sculptures, Drawings
The process began through a study of folding techniques and understanding the idea of taking a flat medium and transforming into different forms. As an exercise using light, I photographed the folded works and found inspiration in the sharp geometric shadows that further played on off the graphic forms. I then also started to make drawings and collages of the photographs which led to this conceptual idea of flatten the paper sculptures back down to the flat plane but still having visual depth. As a next step, the addition of color allowed for the use of contrast to add depth to the flat works. The most recent experiments have used a lenticular approach in spraying that has given the illusion of depth to the flattened works.
— Wood Sculptures, Drawings
Inspired by the drawings that textile designers use to communicate their weaving techniques, I started this series with graphic drawings of interwoven lines. It is this idea of how we understand that the forms are interconnected based on the repetitive pattern. Influenced by my studies in Spatial Design at the Royal Danish Academy, I thought about how I could give form and dimension to this concept perhaps in a different material than textiles. At this architecture and design school - and probably like many other schools, I often came across unused material offcuts from students’ models and prototypes. Using these wooden materials at hand, I experimented with creating lasercut sculptures of my Knit drawings. Experimenting with hand painted and spray painted applications, I created two-tone pieces that gave a similar interconnected look. The most recent wood pieces beg the question of whether they could be viewed as art on a wall or used as trays for home decor. Is it design or is it art?
— Drawings, Collage, Sketching
What began as a way to reduce my art waste, I’ve incorporated collaging into my art and design practice as a method to push my work forward and open up to new, unexpected concepts. I take past works (drawings, paintings, sketches) and mix them into collages with new compositions and combinations of color and texture. Not only for art, I’ve applied this method as well to my design journals in which I mix references I find in the world with sketches from past projects in the hopes of finding new approaches to ideas. In a time of hybridity and codification, it’s important to open up the process and allow for the unexpected to break you out of your singular ways of thinking.
