I construct my work with reclaimed materials, foregrounding their histories and formal attributes. I transform materials like cardboard and fabrics through dyeing, pressing, and cutting before reassembling and affixing the parts together. The practice is a unifying of unlike parts, accessing conversations on the expanded field of painting, feminism, and found materials. My primary collage materials are emptied and flattened boxes from my neighborhood that I submerge in water, dye, dry, and press or iron. This process makes visible the patterns inherent in the structure of a cardboard box. The resulting papers that are left from the transformed cardboard have thin stripes of color. The labor of deconstructing/breaking down mountains of boxes, sinking them into a dye bath, and pulling them out to dry in my yard echoes work that my mothers, great aunts, grandmothers did – persistent and often underestimated domestic labor.

I construct my work with reclaimed materials, foregrounding their histories and formal attributes. I transform materials like cardboard and fabrics through dyeing, pressing, and cutting before reassembling and affixing the parts together. The practice is a unifying of unlike parts, accessing conversations on the expanded field of painting, feminism, and found materials. My primary collage materials are emptied and flattened boxes from my neighborhood that I submerge in water, dye, dry, and press or iron. This process makes visible the patterns inherent in the structure of a cardboard box. The resulting papers that are left from the transformed cardboard have thin stripes of color. The labor of deconstructing/breaking down mountains of boxes, sinking them into a dye bath, and pulling them out to dry in my yard echoes work that my mothers, great aunts, grandmothers did – persistent and often underestimated domestic labor.