artist statement
“I look at a square and see a room, a boundary, a building block. I think about how quilters use a square to build a pattern. Then seeing something of their life in those patterns, naming them in ways that articulated their ideas of home and identity.
Keeping to a few simple inked shapes, rotated and repeated within squares, I’ve tried to echo this process in my own work. Creating, recognizing, naming. The shapes that have begun to populate these rooms have become objects and figures that push or crouch or lean within these boundaries, leaving their marks as they move around the printing plate. These forms have enabled me to think critically about the world I create, the spaces I claim, and the boundaries I navigate.”
about the artist
is a printmaker working in Grand Isle, Vermont. Memory looms large in her work, informing how she reconstructs places and objects of importance. She uses the physical labor of making printing plates to pursue the different ways the hand and the material can create meaning together. Mapmaking and quiltmaking references are part of her recent work that seeks to make sense of place —how we remember it, claim it and occupy it.