For this series I created mixed media paintings that use still life as a base to weave and attach text and images. This work considers the relationship between the real and imagined past, present, and future, through painted objects and solid, deconstructed material. Reflected in belongings and domestic interiors is a questioning of identity; personal and national. 

Thrift store-sourced books from the 80s, and photography of domestic life, inform my the creation of a time I never experienced. Lying on the table in Distorted Memory/ Our Changing American Values is a book in which academics and experts discuss the new millennium, and another about astrological predictions. Flyers left between the pages of the book and woven into the scene advertise love advice along with a printout of a birth chart that predicts the course of the life of someone born on March 25^th, 1941. Circling the vanity of Friday, May 2nd, 1986 / seven (plus) years of bad luck, and slicing through the mirror, are selected images from “Day in the Life of America,” pictures taken all over the U.S. on this date. Woven into the bed in Towards Tomorrow are photos from a book from 1984  about the future of spaceflight and the possibility of cities in space.

Using paper weaving techniques and collage aesthetics, I accumulate materials to layer and alter meaning. In the chaotic scenes is a sense of domestic comfort and unease of the decay of Americana. These objects, discarded by their owners, are here- taken apart and woven into a hypothetical scene- at once static, and transient.