I am a multi-disciplinary artist who makes weavings, sculptures out of basket reed, glass and other media such as metal, installations, and drawings. I make woven works using a variety of looms to produce complex patterned cloth and abstract tapestries. I hand render sculpture forms using basketry materials and techniques and dye my work in a six year old vat of natural indigo. I spin raw wool into yarn for use in my tapestries and I hand dye materials used in the majority of my work using both natural dyes and Procion dyes. This past year, I have grown and harvested indigo nursed from seed to plant in my backyard and the year previous, I learned to harvest the plant and to dry the flowers to start the planting for this year. I also maintain a drawing practice that acts as a method of experimentation of form, abstraction and positive and negative space.

 

Within the past several years, I have focused my practice on the study of Jewish texts and ideas related to mysticism, creation, cosmology and divinity. This process re-asserts living symbols, explores the mysterious and the unknown, and continues lineages of meaning making within Jewish traditions that are constantly transforming. Formally, I am interested in the Jewish art historical tradition that links intricacy and beauty to the infinite. Unity within multiplicity and the small and singular's relationship to (and inseparability from) the greater whole are themes that are continuations of my earlier investigations into Jewish mystical texts, such as Sefer Yetzirah, and are themes that I believe to be more broadly relevant to this contemporary moment. Within my studio, I continue investigate threads, allow myself to resolve ideas, to be curious and learn, and maintain both a North Star and feel around in the darkness for most of the journey at the same time. The art that is created is the product of intentionality, care and effort and is presented as a continual question rather than an answer or a lesson.