Artist Statement

My work explores how memory is held within domestic space. I use my nanny’s house as a lens, it is a dark, patterned, intimate interior where texture, repetition, and small architectural details shaped my early sense of home through smells, textures and feelings. I focus on the unnoticed corners: the angle of a staircase, a scrap of wallpaper, the light through lace curtains. These fragments act like memory itself, they are layered, partial, and sometimes distorted. I isolate the parts we think we know, to show them in a new way and understand them differently. 

I draw, print, and laser-cut these fragments to break the house down into pieces and rebuild it in a new form. This process mirrors how I revisit the past, i do this through sections, surfaces, and sensations rather than whole rooms. By incorporating materials directly from the house like wallpaper, pillowcases, and lace, I embed physical traces of my nanny and her choices throughout her life into the work. These textiles hold textures, routines, and tactual memory.

Pattern plays a central role. What might once have been seen as “too much” becomes a language of identity, taste, and class. Pattern-on-pattern is an act of preservation and can be seen as a visual presence tied to the lives of the women who shaped what i now know as home.

My installations become emotional maps that shift between the public appearance of a house and the private interiors where true identity is explored and formed. In this sense, the domestic environment becomes a character itself and is intimate, protective, and resilient. I dissect my Nanny's home, taste and personal life relating to how she is constantly reflecting on her own moments of connection and isolation. I take sections, objects, textures from her house that I have been exposed to and looked at all the time but have not truly taken in or appreciated. I am taking these out of the context in which they live and reflecting on how I view them or reconstruct them in relation to the memories I have formed and which have formed me.

This way of working directly informs my teaching practice. Just as I deconstruct domestic spaces to uncover meaning, I encourage students to slow down, observe closely, and re-examine the familiar. My focus on texture, fragmentation, sensory experience, and reconstruction shapes how I design learning experiences. By inviting students to explore materials, question perception, and communicate ideas through process as much as outcome. I see both creating and teaching as methods of reflection: layered, responsive, and deeply personal.