Sunshine but Backwards 01 Soft sculpture, hand embroidery
A magical goat puppet sits in a field of flowers. His two faces make it so much easier to take everything in. He has soft brown fur, a fancy neck frill, and lots of secrets. Will you sit with him for a moment? + Enlarge
Peppercorn the Goat Puppet 01 Soft sculpture, thread sculpture, hand embroidery, acrylic paint
A magical goat puppet sits in a field of flowers. His two faces make it so much easier to take everything in. He has soft brown fur, a fancy neck frill, and lots of secrets. Will you sit with him for a moment? + Enlarge
Peppercorn the Goat Puppet 02 Soft sculpture, thread sculpture, hand embroidery, acrylic paint
A blue bird and a yellow bird fell so deeply in love, that their bodies began merging, mixing, and making all new beautiful colors and patterns. The sun is their only witness, and all they need is the one that they've become. + Enlarge
And in Their Feathered Love, They Became One Hand Embroidery/ Thread Painting 2 feet by 1 foot
A monstrous pumpkin spider engages in a battle against an ensnared moth. We will never know who the true winner is. + Enlarge
Prey Patterns Digital painting
A sun being puppet sits cross legged. His bright colors, embellishments, and prominent top surgery scars are meant to represent the immense self love I have found in accepting my identity as a trans person. + Enlarge
Trans-cendence Soft sculpture, reed sculpting
Bendjammin 01 Paper clay, soft sculpture, hand embroidery
Self-ish Portrait-ish 01 Soft Sculpture, Wire sculpting
Statement

What use is a physical body if I have nothing to hold?
Am I looking for companionship?
Comfort?
Or some semblance of self recognition?

My love is for making soft art that forms relationships with the viewer’s internal weather. The flexibility and softness of fabric and thread allow for a sympathetic portrayal of our natural forms. I use the fiber medium to create soft sculptures, puppets, and two dimensional fiber pieces which I can use to show the sympathetic magic that lays within our physical manifestations. I hope to explore emotions and thought patterns through motifs separate enough from our recognizable selves that they invite us to shed our preconceived ideas of consciousness and humanity. I also aim to delve deeper into humankind’s ability to overlay personalities onto inanimate objects, and the unintentional imprinting that occurs when reacting to likeness.

I, cocooned in my brain and nerves and skin, enjoy spending my free time watching bodies sprout from my hands, and hope that they will create a life that will somehow surpass my own.