What if you must flee your home?

Those who face this reality find their relationships, expectations, and a sense of continuity on which their existence depends become fragmented.  This is the plight of eighty-four million people today who are forcibly displaced from their homelands. My work is a portraiture of these crises and a response to conditions that force them out of their homes.

Although my work,  at its core,  is about loss, despair, destruction, and bereavement,  I am particularly interested in the transformation that happens when this grim space is injected with color, imagination, humor, and vitality.  I embroider and enrich these stories to offer an alternate lens that projects this crisis's human, cultural and anthropological aspects.  

I work with used or rejected fabrics.  I enjoy the energy and the history of use that old fabrics lend to my work.  These swatches, like refugees, are discarded, disposable, and overlooked and it is satisfying to me to reassemble them in a new context, giving them a new purpose.