I combine the rigorous structure of weaving with the malleable properties of oil paint to produce tactile, visual, and associative abstractions that question the familiarity of either form. Freed from the rules of the loom, I extrude individual ‘threads’ of oil paint until they amass into illusory woven fields, entangled ridges, and corporeal structures that are seemingly pushed, pulled, gathered, and raised by unseen forces. These textured surfaces, formed by the slow accumulation of marks, produce incremental visual ‘events’ that resist painting’s lean toward fixed, two-dimensional imagery.

At their core, the paintings activate metaphorical meaning through visual and textural perception, foregrounding materiality and the experience of touch and presence in our increasingly digitized lives.