Textile Work

Piñata Hide

This object is a remix of the birthday piñata ritual and the animal hide hunting trophy. I covered a life-size silhouette of a donkey hide in tissue paper, cut and pasted using the same technique applied to the surface of piñatas....

Charro

Social Observatory

Between a Rock

Frozen

Tea Hive

Backyard Collection

Backyard Collection is an experiment in conjuring artifacts from my childhood to explore the intersection of place and identity. My memories com from first-hand experience, re-told stories, Kodak photographs, and a singular reel of home movie footage. This project focuses on the significant objects captured...

Deer Blind (Device for Framing the Landscape)

This project references traditional elevated deer blinds that dot the landscape of the Midwest, while changing the function of the structure. Borrowing the aesthetics and scale of the blind, this sculpture is built atop steel rockers, subtly diverging from the traditional form. The rockers physically...

Lookout Mountain

In this installation, a gold-leafed bench seat from a pick-up truck confronts a video documenting dusk to sunset over the city of Denver, which is projected on a concave screen mimicking the curve of a windshield. Lookout Mountain examines the intervention of the vehicle in...