Everyone experiences love, hardship, and loss throughout their lives; the effect of these experiences forms who we are inside. I am able to reflect on the events of my life: growing up in a tight knit family, living in the Adirondacks, and battling Leukemia to create uniquely personal works expressing who and what I am.

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Living in the Adirondacks, I have developed a deep respect and adoration for nature, life, flowers, trees and its restorative tranquility. My battle with Leukemia completely changed my whole being and gave me a new perspective on perseverance, strength, and fragility. My fibers and jewelry work directly reflect my experiences and expand over a range of media and subject. In fibers I create conceptual emotionally driven work through a variety of fiber creation techniques including weaving, embroidery and tatting. I predominantly use natural fibers such as wool or cotton as well as natural dyes which come from plants, roots, trees and bugs. Using these fibers and dyeing techniques allows me to relate to love of nature as well as examine a concept of rebirth and continuity. I use tatting and embroidery, methods of embellishing and stitching on fabric to create imagery of cells and emotions that reflect my leukemia and loss. Additionally, I combine metal into fibers pieces and fiber techniques in metal such as weaving metal. In my jewelry work that incorporates fibers techniques such as weaving or tatting, I try to convey and emulate the technique and as well as the elegance, refinement, and fragility fiber has. My other jewelry work uses imagery of flowers, ivy, vines, and trees. I choose subject matter based on the emotion I want the piece to convey, every flower I choose represents a specific concept, a rose for love, calla lily for life and death, and ivy for its strength, support, and destruction.