Mending the Legacy

Quilting something old into something profoundly new.

My practice has often been driven by the need to reconcile the past. Nowhere is this more apparent than in my new "Ode to My Mother" series, where I grapple with the complicated relationship between mothers and daughters—the love, the pain, and everything we inherit.

Detailed shot from “Ode to My Mother.”

As in many of my works, instead of starting fresh, I deconstruct old paintings—canvases that no longer serve their purpose—and stitch them back into something profoundly new. This process of cutting up and quilting is a physical act of reckoning, turning fragmented emotional history into a cohesive, large, and textual landscape.

Quilting is my way of making sense of what came before, taking the pieces that hurt and the pieces that hold us together, and finding a beautiful woven path forward with both. These pieces are messy and tender, just like family.

11 x 11 x 2 in “Ode to My Mother” framed works.