The Flowers We Keep features works that explore the complex and evolving relationships between the human form and the lived-in environments we inhabit. Our personal spaces become a physical reflection of the stories we tell about ourselves and who we are in the wider world. We gather and assemble small pieces from our daily lives to reflect our memories, habits, and evolving self-narratives and thus create micro-environments that serve as incubators and archives for our ever-changing identities.

The work I strive to create captures moments when human-made spaces and natural worlds collide with each other while exploring ways that we shape and are shaped by our surroundings. I am driven by the tangible tensions and connections we share between one another and how moments of natural intimacy and identity permeate into our own interior spaces.

Within the exhibition, I utilize a variety of materials to layer my ideas contextually into my practice; this includes serigraphy and intaglio, book arts, textiles, quilting, and natural dyes; and some of my pieces combine two or more of these processes to create layers of color, texture, and pattern.