Living Works V.2: “Passages”
This is a shape-shifting series of assemblages that evolve over time; dividing, multiplying, and reemerging in new forms with each exhibition. Impressions from San Francisco’s Excelsior District, Tucson, and recent travels are painted, sewn, and collaged together, then adorned with unexpected materials like jojoba blossoms, lime thorns, and spider silk.
Living Works can be bought, rented, or bartered for, but if left unclaimed, they’ll keep changing. I think of them as alive: able to shift, grow, or disappear altogether.
If this body of work could speak, it would say:
You’ve seen me before, but I’m new.
I don’t believe in mistakes.
I can be viewed up close or from afar.
I don’t follow the same rules I used to.
Living Works V1: “Look/Don’t Look” is about that tug-of-war between wanting to share and wanting to hide. My process starts with ripping or cutting up my own paintings, then sewing them back together, layering in embroidery and tiny beads. I keep the scraps and loose threads (the “don’t look” parts) and try to find a place for them too. It’s messy, honest, and a little weird, but that’s the point: showing what’s usually left out.
