“Perceptually a person is a viewer, who sees himself at the center of the world surrounding him. As he moves, the center of the world stays with him.”

–Rudolph Arnheim

My embroideries live within the conventions of portraiture yet deal with images from a popular website where desire, vanity, and arbitration play dominant roles. The use of thread is a reference to the social weaving of communities that we create on sites like facebook and myspace. My curiosity lies in the difference between the ways you perceive me versus the way I think I am perceived.