Rooted in Memory.

My work explores the connective tissue of personal, interpersonal and collective nostalgia. I generate text, images and objects rooted in memory, both my own and those shared with me through the generous vulnerability of others.

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Narrative Garments

Honoring the stories embedded in the clothes we wear.

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Peg’s Archives

Exploring my relationship with my grandmother’s meticulously kept family records.

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Noe Valley Project

This body of work was generated from my graduate thesis project, examining the return to my childhood neighborhood through the lens of collective storytelling and place as a vessel for memory.

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Domestic Recall

This edition várie explores the way memory distorts and alters architectural space, using a variety of colors and patterns of paper to change this corner of a remembered room.

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Prints, Book Arts & Paintings

A collection of miscellaneous works.