In my work I seek to articulate distinctions between habit and ritual—the frivolity of the former countered by the intentionality of the latter. The paintings are made from the dense comingling of paint and hand-sewn remnant fabric. In the finished work, as well as the practice by which it is made, I wish to give credence to inefficiency and labor intensiveness, and to elevate these notions by pursuing them with a purposiveness that bears the gravity of ritual.