As a Brooklyn-based artist, activist, curator, and scholar, my practice of making is informed by my work in human rights and fair trade advocacy, community organizing, and grassroots development. Through weaving and stitching, I explore how labor rights, community, ecology, and meaning shape and are shaped by the craft of turning fibers into textiles. I find beauty and liberation in the ability to take something apart in order to create something new and the knowledge that amidst constraint we have an abundance of choice in how we produce meaning, objects, and social lives. I find further inspiration in the women labor movement’s call for “bread and roses:” life should be beautiful as well as just. So I use my hands to make cloth that touches our skin and inhabits our lives: to turn the results of my own consumption away from excess and back into objects I hope are of comfort, beauty, and meaning for others.
September 15, 2009 at 11:37 am
Hello, you retweeted one of our tweets and we sought you out, support your work and will follow and favorite you. Would love to meet in person. We will be exhibiting at NOW SHOWCASE in NYC
with 17 other sustainable designers on 9/20 & 9/21. http://www.nowshowcase.org. We would enjoy it if you were to drop by.