This body of work starts with clothing that already has a history, mine, my family's, friends', and pieces sourced from secondhand stores. I cut each garment apart, breaking it down to sleeves, pockets, seams, cuffs, collars, then rearrange and hand stitch the pieces into a new surface. Nothing is painted over afterward. The cutting, stitching, and stretching onto the frame are the finished work, left alone once complete.

This puts the paintings in conversation with stitched textile traditions, Boro, Gee's Bend quilting, and with a painting lineage more concerned with surface and accumulation than illustration. The clothing's original function disappears. What remains is memory and history, embedded directly in the material rather than depicted on top of it.

Old becomes new. Not restored, rebuilt. Renewed.

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