"My work begins with personal photographs-often self-portraits from years past-and takes shape through salvaged fabric, thread, and slow, tactile processes. In my 100-square-foot home studio in flood-prone New Orleans, I translate memory into textiles by stitching, cyanotyping pressed flowers from my garden, and dyeing fabric with plants I’ve tended for nearly a decade. I move between machine quilting, hand sewing, and block carving, staying close to the physical rhythm of making. Years spent working with clothing and witnessing the scale of textile waste have me committed to using secondhand materials, connecting environmental care with personal history. Humor and improvisation have long been tools for navigating uncertainty, and while my work is rarely overtly funny, it’s shaped by that same spark: the joy of surprise, the charge of the unexpected, and the surreal ways past and present overlap in both fabric and self."